Nuclear energy is one of the most polarizing topics when it comes to ways of generating electricity. On one hand, there are those who believe nuclear is a much better alternative to fossil fuels and ...

Four decades after the world's worst nuclear disaster, scientists have uncovered a chilling reminder that Chernobyl's ...

The atomic era is now 80 years old but there is still an unresolved fundamental debate about its greatest danger: is it man or machine? Is the main problem the nuclear weapons themselves or those who ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first capsules of high-level radioactive waste have been removed from a water-filled pool at the Hanford nuclear site to ...

The largest and most destructive nuclear weapons always grab the headlines. Week after week, news items emerge concerning China’s rapid buildup of intercontinental-range nuclear missiles and Russia’s ...

The world is witnessing a dangerous convergence of conflicts directly involving or influenced by nuclear-armed powers, creating a strategic environment more combustible than any in recent memory. What ...

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A coalition of civil society groups and public figures in India has sounded an alarm over the country's proposed privatization of its nuclear energy sector, according to Counterview. The group warned ...

The world is moving closer to the brink of nuclear war in alarming ways that are more dangerous and harder to anticipate than during the Cold War. The famous 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was a harrowing ...