BEIJING-- Research by Chinese geologists suggests that the mountain above North Korea's main nuclear test site has likely collapsed. That collapse has likely rendered the site unsafe for further ...

China says the Linglong One is the world’s first commercial land-based small modular reactor (SMR) to pass a safety review by ...

Between 1949 and 1989, the Soviet Union detonated more than 450 nuclear devices at Semipalatinsk, exposing hundreds of thousands to radiation and leaving lasting scars across Kazakhstan.

Cold functional tests have been completed at the ACP100 small modular reactor demonstration project under construction at the ...

Growing up in Salt Lake City, Utah, in the 1950s and 60s, Mary Dickson was among the millions of American schoolchildren taught to “duck and cover” in the event of a nuclear war. “I just remember ...

Editor’s note: “Behind the News” is the product of Sun staff assisted by the Sun’s AI lab, which includes a variety of tools such as Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini and ChatGPT. On ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has launched a novel pilot program that will allow private developers to build and operate full-scale advanced nuclear test reactors outside of the national ...

The world of Fallout is a fictional one, but it deals with some very real and very serious issues, chief among them the ...

It was a family affair, watching the atomic blasts from our front yard, the view pristine and unobstructed. My family and I lived in Las Vegas, just 65 miles from the Nevada Test Site. For 41 years, ...

The history of North Korea's claimed nuclear tests. — -- Ahead of Vice President Mike Pence's trip to neighboring South Korea this weekend, tensions between the United States and North Korea ...

Nobel Laureates and leading nuclear experts gathered at the University of Chicago this week to discuss the continuing dangers of nuclear war and the need for prevention. Experts warned at a panel ...