In an era of nuclear tension, the U.S. kept bombers airborne with live nuclear weapons 24/7 under Operation Chrome Dome. This ...

All-out nuclear war may be the greatest risk we face ... The Pentagon maintains that the United States has experienced 32 broken arrow accidents, including the 1980 episode in Damascus, Arkansas ...

The Unit 1 reactor on Three Mile Island, which closed in 2019, is adjacent to the Unit 2 reactor that experienced a major nuclear power accident in 1979 A newly-announced Microsoft deal would ...

It was the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear history. Though only small amounts of radiation escaped the reactor structure with no fatalities, the accident raised alarms about the safety of ...

a massive nuclear accident took place at the top secret Mayak nuclear station in the Soviet Union. At the time, it was the largest nuclear disaster in history. So why has no one heard of it?

The NRX reactor kept operating until 1992. The Chalk River accident remains the worst in Canadian history. The worst nuclear energy accident in U.S. history, the partial meltdown of a reactor at ...

and safer on-site storage for nuclear waste are just a few of the ways we can help prevent nuclear accidents. Since its founding in 1969, UCS has served as a nuclear safety watchdog. We help ensure ...

particularly in light of past nuclear accidents. Recent studies have concentrated on improving the materials used in nuclear fuel cladding, which is crucial for preventing catastrophic failures ...

Given its history of ardently pursuing a national policy of promoting nuclear power generation that led to one of the world's worst nuclear accidents in history, the government has every reason to ...

Nuclear power plant safety systems are designed to mitigate a range of abnormal operating conditions. In the unlikely case of a severe accident, plant operators use guidelines developed specifically ...