As a nuclear engineer and researcher who has worked on tracking radiation levels and exposure in projects related to Chernobyl, Fukushima Daiichi, and U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories ...

Twenty-five years ago today, reactor number 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in what's now Ukraine melted down. Some 600,000 workers were exposed to massive amounts of radiation and the ...

TOKYO (AP) – Ukrainian nuclear experts say Japanese evacuated from around the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant should be able to return to their homes _ unlike the Chernobyl site, which remains inside ...

The severity level at the crippled, radiation-seeping Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station may be raised from a level five to a level seven on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Eduardo B. Farfán, Kennesaw State University (THE CONVERSATION) When nuclear accidents ...