Hundreds of people were recruited to “help the war effort,” though most were told very little about the details. After a series of smaller experiments to prove the concept, work began on the reactor ...

In June, the Pentagon Defense Innovation Unit solicited proposals for small nuclear reactors to power bases in the US by 2030. The idea is to have a series of mini- and micro-reactors which would ...

The initial suspicion was that the uranium might have undergone some form of artificial manipulation or enrichment, a common ...

Mr Breus says the series creators showed the radiation effects on the human body well. In the hours after the explosion, he spoke to Oleksandr Akimov, the shift leader at the No. 4 reactor ...

Flamanville 3, an EPR reactor located in Normandy, sustained a series of technical setbacks over the past several years. The 1,600-MW unit, now the most-powerful generating unit in France ...