When it comes to nuclear disaster, everyone knows Three Mile Island, but few have heard the name of Santa Susana and what happened there in 1959.

Given the totality of energy production, nuclear energy is very safe, but when things go wrong, they go very wrong as ...

Accidents like Chornobyl and Fukushima have damaged the public perception of nuclear power, leading to decreased investment and development. Nuclear power is a low-carbon energy source with a proven ...

Scientists in China have implemented a new approach to remove heat from the core of a nuclear reactor. Researchers from the China Institute of Atomic Energy have tested a Residual Heat Removal (RHR) ...

It's been 50 years since America's first nuclear meltdown in the Santa Susana Mountains, between the San Fernando and Simi Valleys. The site was a massive research installation, which tested 30,000 ...

Heat transfer during severe accidents is a critical area of research that underpins the safety and resilience of nuclear reactors. In these scenarios, core degradation may lead to the formation of ...

IWAKI, Japan (AP) - Cooling systems failed at another nuclear reactor on Japan's devastated coast Sunday, hours after an explosion at a nearby unit made leaking radiation, or even outright meltdown, ...

An independent parliamentary committee issued a report on Thursday on last year’s crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, concluding that the disaster was “man-made” and the result of ...

INDIANAPOLIS — On Tuesday, Nov. 4, First American Nuclear (FANCO) announced they were moving to Indiana and planning to build their first energy park using their EAGL-1 small modular reactors (SMRs).