It was 47 years ago this week: Just before 4 a.m. on Wednesday, March 28, 1979, a malfunctioning valve set off what would ...

Piece by piece, bolt by bolt, the Indian Point nuclear power plant is being stripped down to its parts, each one a snapshot in time from the plant’s six decades supplying electricity to New York City ...

Nuclear power, specifically the next gen nuclear reactors, is really starting to show what it can do. Forget what you might ...

In May, President Trump sat in the Oval Office flanked by executives from America’s nuclear power industry. “It’s a hot industry. It’s a brilliant industry,” the president said from behind the ...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory is building the technical case for 3D-printed parts inside U.S. nuclear reactors, combining ...

The dry well is connected by large ducts to the wet well, a large toroidal (i.e., doughnut-shaped) part of the containment that is partially filled with water. Gas and steam releases from an accident ...

Construction work has begun on the outer containment building for the third new unit at the Leningrad nuclear power plant, which will be the seventh in total. Work is taking place on both containment ...

Three major nuclear reactor accidents—Three Mile Island (1979 in the United States), Chernobyl (1986 in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union), and Fukushima Dai-ichi (2011 in Japan)—significantly ...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission posted an event notification report Oct. 21. In a statement emailed to The Sentinel, Holtec confirmed the incident and stated the individual has since returned to ...