A large area around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant that was vacated as a result of the accident that shocked the world in 1986 was called the "exclusion zone". At that time, Chernobyl and its ...

A Brief History Nuclear power has had its share of ups and downs since its inception. The idea of harnessing the energy from ...

It’s getting hotter — and more expensive to stay cool — in the island nation. Will it become the first in Southeast Asia to ...

In the popular imagination, nuclear power plants conjure fears of catastrophic explosions and radiation leaks, such as the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine in 1986. In reality, hundreds of reactors ...

Sir Keir Starmer expresses his irritation that the UK's nuclear capacity has shrivelled, despite its world-beating start.

As Southeast Asia's energy demand surges, several countries in the region are revisiting nuclear power as a potential ...

Nuclear power plants operate 24/7 as do the natural gas plants that ... Critics point to the 1979 meltdown at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island, the1986 explosion at Chernobyl and the major 2011 ...

This newfound enthusiasm has also affected the nuclear industry, where two dominant age groups have emerged: baby boomers who ...

By the 1970s and 1980s, nuclear power plants became integral to the country’s electricity supply, providing a stable and ...

It didn’t take long for us to turn the atomic bomb into atomic energy. People thought nuclear power would be so pervasive that concepts were popping up in the before ’50s that had ...