NRC Says Ohio Reactor Damage 'Significant'
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Damage to the reactor head of the Davis-Besse power plant in Ohio ranks among the top five most serious nuclear plant accidents or near-accidents since Three Mile Island, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Monday.
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Syria has raised a new building on a remote site bombed by Israel in September that some analysts suspect was a potential nuclear reactor, an independent security monitoring group reported on Monday.
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More than 500 gallons of radioactive water leaked at a nuclear power plant, but did not contaminate the environment, an official said Thursday.
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Some critics question proposed federal spending hikes for nuclear research.
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A strong earthquake shut down a nuclear reactor Thursday in central Japan, where the toll from an earthquake last month rose to 39, officials said.
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A nuclear plant hit by an earthquake may not be allowed to reopen for more than a year, Japanese reports say.
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Investigators got their first close-up look Friday at a chemical plant leveled by an explosion, saying the damage was so extensive that they don't know the precise point of the blast.
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KULSHICHI, Belarus -- No one lives here anymore. Only radiation-danger signs stick up from the ground in this village contaminated by the 1986 Chernobyl accident, and abandoned buildings gape silently, their windows broken.
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Progress Energy said on Friday it notified local law enforcement and nuclear regulators of an incident involving a rail car used to accompany a shipping container carrying spent nuclear fuel on the property of its Harris nuclear facility in North Carolina.
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Dozens of homes and businesses looked like they were shredded by "high explosives," Lt. Gov. Bill Halter said Sunday as he surveyed the damage a day after a powerful storm injured 40 people.
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KASHIWAZAKI, Japan -- The mayor ordered that a nuclear power plant hit by a strong earthquake be shut down today until its safety could be confirmed after a long list of problems -- including radiation leaks, burst pipes, and fires -- came to light.
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Contaminated groundwater tainted with trichloroethylene has led to a  dangerous plume that is now affecting the air quality in homes near the  Behr-Dayton Thermal Products Plant in Dayton, Ohio. The U.S.
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A chemical from rocket fuel that has seeped into drinking-water supplies nationwide is safe at higher doses than federal environmental officials had concluded, according to a report released Monday.
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KASHIWAZAKI, Japan  - Officials at the world's biggest nuclear power plant admitted on Tuesday there had been more radiation leaks after an earthquake in Japan that killed nine people and forced thousands from their homes.
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One reactor at a Russian nuclear power station was closed down after a malfunction, but there was no leak of radiation at the site near the city of Saratov on the Volga river, Russian news agencies reported on Friday.
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A spokeswoman for the International Atomic Energy Agency says US officials have been cautioned about the vulnerability of high explosives stored at Iraq&#39;s Al-Qaqaa military
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PRAGUE, Czech Republic - More than 500 gallons of radioactive water leaked at a nuclear power plant, but did not contaminate the environment, an official said Thursday.