For decades, there have been fears that radiation from power stations can cause cancer, with some evidence showing clusters ...

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The Ministry of Energy of Ukraine has stated that the connection lines between the territory controlled by Ukraine and the ...

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Nuclear weapons, including atomic and thermonuclear bombs, are among the most destructive forces known to humanity. These weapons of mass destruction harness the power of nuclear fission or a ...

At Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, a half-dozen workers are making what appear to be gray billiard balls.

The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, which is also in Ukraine, is not considered a serious potential source of radiation leakage, in part because its 1986 meltdown led to its shutdown and removal of ...

The infamous reactor meltdown at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 led to 28 deaths from acute radiation poisoning, 350,000 evacuations, and thousands of cases of thyroid cancer.

New nuclear power is cleaner and can be even cheaper than electricity generated by burning coal, but in August the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission denied a petition aimed at reducing the cost ...

Belarus' second nuclear power unit was disconnected due to a cooling system alert in the non-nuclear section. Authorities ...