The U.S. Department of Energy has announced a public-private partnership with SoftBank and AEP Ohio to develop a massive ...

A video taken by tiny drones sent into one of three damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant shows a ...

Japan's nuclear regulator says nuclear power plants will be required to have drone detection systems as part of anti-terrorism measures.

Schuyler County in New York is home to a bucolic state park, an automobile race track and one day—if Judy McKinney Cherry has her way—a nuclear power plant. In summer 2025, Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered ...

BUCHANAN, N.Y. (PIX11) — If the Trump administration officials have their way, the now decommissioned Indian Point nuclear power plant could be back up and running, and providing electricity to New ...

TerraPower Founder Bill Gates spoke in a recorded video during a press conference in Cheyenne, Wyo., in 2021.Michael Cummo/AP Construction of the Bill Gates-backed nuclear power project in Wyoming ...

WHEN SHINADA Shoichi was a boy he noticed grown-ups arguing. Should their city, Kashiwazaki, along the Sea of Japan, host a nuclear power plant that would send energy to Tokyo? Opinions were “sharply ...

TerraPower, a Bill Gates–backed nuclear power start-up, received the federal green light to start building a power plant in Wyoming. The approval paves the way for the first new commercial nuclear ...

CHICAGO — During his recent State of the State and budget address, Gov. JB Pritzker announced a new direction for nuclear energy in Illinois, aimed at staving off predicted energy shortages as the ...

Conventional wisdom holds that nuclear power plants — outside of ultra-rare disasters like Chernobyl and Fukushima — are perfectly safe for nearby residents. But a massive new study conducted by ...

A sweeping nationwide study has found that U.S. counties located closer to operating nuclear power plants have higher cancer death rates than those farther away. Researchers analyzed data from every ...

U.S. counties located closer to operational nuclear power plants (NPPs) have higher rates of cancer mortality than those located farther away, even after accounting for socioeconomic, environmental, ...