In April of 1986, what was intended to be a routine safety test at a nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union turned into one ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 17 (Reuters) - A senior U.S. official on Tuesday revealed what he said were new details of an underground nuclear test blast that China allegedly conducted in June 2020. Assistant ...

Fifteen years ago, Fukushima, Japan, was home to one of the worst nuclear disasters in history. Today, some places in the region look just as they did in the immediate aftermath of that fateful Friday ...

FUKUSHIMA, Japan — Nature is reclaiming abandoned buildings in the exclusion zone surrounding Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, an area that appears frozen in time 15 years after disaster struck.

March 11, 2026, marks 15 years since the Fukushima nuclear disaster happened in Japan. This major nuclear accident initially shook the international community of nuclear experts to its core. As ...

After the infamous 2011 explosion of three reactors in Japan’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Fukushima, the government shut down all nuclear operations. For fifteen years, Japan banished nuclear power, ...

The brand new four-part series Disaster: The Chernobyl Meltdown premieres on CNN Sunday, March 1 at 9/8c. Across the span of four episodes, the new CNN original series will examine the world’s worst ...

People observe a moment of silence at 2:46 p.m., the moment the earthquake struck with a backdrop of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Namie, Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan as the country ...

A strong 5.2 quake rattling the ground near Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant would be alarming in any week. Coming just as Washington and Tehran edge toward a direct clash over nuclear sites, it has ...

The perils of a nuclear disaster seem relatively abstract compared to the very tangible horrors of an earthquake and tsunami. But those two events are mere overture to “Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare” ...

March 11, 2026, marks 15 years since the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Cleanup and recovery efforts have been ongoing since the incident. While some surrounding areas in the ...