As the cloud cleared, Air Force bombers dropped in to gather air samples. Researchers hoped that the radioactive fallout ...

In 1952, a Canadian nuclear reactor suffered the world’s first meltdown during what was supposed to be a routine test.

On April 26, 1986, the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), ...

Study models the consequences of failure at Egypt's El-Dabaa nuclear reactor and warns the impact would extend up to 50 miles ...

Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive material split, emitting neutrons.

Last year, a Russian “shadow fleet” vessel transported two submarine nuclear reactors to an uncertain destination in the Far ...

In September, the Ontario government announced $18-million in funding to allow McMaster to operate the nuclear reactor around ...