A $50 million security system at the Y-12 nuclear complex that stores fissile material for 10,000 nuclear bombs is still malfunctioning

A secret 50-year-old memo to the British prime minister solved this Cold War mystery. But could a similar event happen again today? Richard Hollingham investigates.

It has been more than four years since the east coast of Japan was hit with a trifecta: an earthquake of Magnitude 9 on the Richter scale, followed by a massive tsunami triggered by the quake’s tremors, and then the meltdown of three nuclear reactors in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear generating complex.

Sakurajima volcano is 31 miles from Sendai nuclear plant, which restarted one of its reactors this week after new safety rules.

Sendai nuclear plant in southern Japan is first to begin operation since 2011 Fukushima meltdowns, despite anti-nuclear protests

When Atsushi Hoshino set out to revive a group representing atomic bomb survivors in the rural northeast Japanese prefecture of Fukushima 30 years ago, one topic was taboo,criticizing the nuclear power industry upon which many relied for jobs

The IAEA needs to accurately monitor Iranian nuclear power reactors to track how much nuclear weapon-grade material they have.

… “Complete failure” of ice wall built to contain extremely radioactive water… Plutonium is flowing into Pacific, will for many years to come — Strontium in ocean hits record level, huge increase reported since April (VIDEO)

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Continuing U.S. nuclear cooperation with China will support tens of thousands of American jobs for decades to come and add billions of dollars to the economy annually, the Nuclear Energy Institute told a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing July 16.

Plans to build a Russian nuclear reactor in Finland suffered a setback on Thursday afterthe government said its probe into the ownership of a Croatian investor pointed to Russia. The Croatian company reported a net profit of just $20,000 last year and has Russia-born owners, its documents and Finnish media reports showed.

"The expansion of alternative energy has led to a decline in the price of raw power, rendering nuclear power plants like the one in Grafenrheinfeld, once the cash cows of the energy industry, unprofitable."