Hisashi Ouchi would a fatal dose of radiation while working at Japan's Tokaimura Nuclear Power Plant, dying 83 days later.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Just when it looked like the world was ramping up for a nuclear power renaissance, driven in part by AI's insatiable appetite for energy, something unexpected happened: AI became more efficient.At ...

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 ...

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 ...