Mr Plokhy previously produced an outstanding account of the Chernobyl disaster of 1986, the worst nuclear catastrophe in ...

It’s a huge week for nuclear energy. On Monday, Google announced it had penned a deal to get some of its energy from small ...

If the 1,300°C fire in front of them wasn’t bad enough, the workers knew that any mistake could turn northwest England into a ...

In what it calls "the world's first corporate agreement to purchase nuclear energy from multiple small modular reactors," ...

Google is officially putting its weight behind advanced “mini” nuclear reactors in an effort to produce new clean to meet ...

Author Tim Mulligan uses the setting of Richland, Washington, (his hometown) where the very real Hanford Nuclear Reactor has been shrouded in m ...

The Russian occupiers showed little concern either about the hazards of the environment or the health of their soldiers.

Some countries in Southeast Asia have long adopted renewable energy produced from natural sources such as wind and solar, but ...

When you think of Chernobyl (or Chornobyl, now), you think of the nuclear accident, of course. But have you ever considered that where there is a nuclear reactor, there is a computer control system?

Making matters worse, the two units in operation use the same so-called RBMK technology that melted down during the notorious 1986 accident in Chernobyl. Unlike modern nuclear reactors ...

Despite the importance of nuclear power as a low-carbon source of electricity, some countries have been phasing it out, citing risks such as the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and the 2011 Fukushima ...

(Chernobyl is two ranks higher ... ‘was that of the government’s for believing that they could push a nuclear reactor to its limits without consequences.’ Windscale has since been renamed ...