The British Royal Navy’s Vanguard-class nuclear missile submarines are a key part of the UK’s defense game plan. But lately, ...

Radiation -induced mutations may not be the reason for the genetic differences between dog populations living near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, according to a new study. At such a critical ...

The UK's nuclear power industry is facing major challenges due to delays, rising costs, and cybersecurity concerns, ...

The aftermath of Sellafield's 1957 reactor fire and the UK's ongoing efforts to entomb its toxic legacy deep beneath the ...

But in 1993, workers caused a massive accident that released radioactive ... Sellafield used to produce weapons-grade nuclear ...

A project to develop the case for scaling-up the harvesting of lead-212 from reprocessed uranium for use in treating cancer ...

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 ...

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 ...

The JET nuclear fusion reactor in the UK has set a new world record for total energy output. However, the reactor's record-smashing test will be its last. Fission is the process by which an atom ...