Deficiencies in the regulation and management of safety matters throughout the Soviet nuclear power industry have also been revealed and are discussed. Two detailed Soviet reports on the causes and ...

Nuclear power plant safety systems are designed to mitigate a range of abnormal operating conditions. In the unlikely case of a severe accident, plant operators use guidelines developed specifically ...

Nuclear power plant accidents, such as the Fukushima Daiichi disaster in 2011, have raised significant concerns regarding the safety and management of nuclear materials. Understanding how ...

Accidents aren’t the only potential threat to nuclear facilities. A successful terrorist attack could kill, sicken, or displace large numbers of people and cause extensive long-term environmental ...

The Unit 1 reactor on Three Mile Island, which closed in 2019, is adjacent to the Unit 2 reactor that experienced a major nuclear power accident in 1979 A newly-announced Microsoft deal would ...

Chernobyl received enthusiastic reviews for its unsettling portrayal of one of history's worst nuclear disasters. Beyond the ...

All-out nuclear war may be the greatest risk we face ... The Pentagon maintains that the United States has experienced 32 broken arrow accidents, including the 1980 episode in Damascus, Arkansas ...

In American states like California, nuclear power has had a tumultuous history that includes protests ... with the Three Mile Island accident often being described as a setback that eroded ...

As chair of the G20, and with its strong history of advocating for nuclear disarmament, South Africa has a major role in ...

Unit 2 is infamous for a 1979 partial meltdown that caused the worst nuclear power accident in American history, releasing large amounts of iodine and radioactive gases into the ecosystem.

Still, the Fukushima accident in particular was a public relations disaster for the nuclear power movement and led ... building up an extremely impressive history of providing 100% CO2-free ...