Sunday, April 26, marks the 40th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear power plant accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power ...

The Atomic Age was a time of mass public optimism in the possibilities of nuclear power for the world. While the raw destructive potential of nuclear weapons was known, the potential for near-infinite ...

The development and use of nuclear technology, which began in the early 1940s, has produced a substantial inventory of radioactive waste— material with no current or currently known future use. The ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan ranked its nuclear crisis at the highest possible severity on an international scale — the same level as the 1986 Chernobyl disaster — even as it insisted Tuesday that radiation ...

GILLETTE — Campbell County commissioners recently sent the message that the storage of high-level nuclear waste is not welcome in Campbell County. The commissioners passed the resolution on a 4-1 vote ...

The United Nations rarely moves fast on disarmament. This year, though, it did something unusual. On November 6, the General Assembly’s First Committee, where states debate over questions of ...