Three Mile Island brings back memories of the horrors of a nuclear accident. The event occurred near Harrisburg (Pa.), in March of 1979. The Unit 2 reactor core partially melted down when equipment ...

FILE PHOTO: Three Mile Island nuclear plant incident - President Jimmy Carter, second from left, visits the nuclear plant near Harrisburg, Pa., USA, April 4, 1979. Former President Jimmy Carter ...

Restart of No 6 reactor at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant suspended after malfunction related to control rods.

The familiar towers at the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor will come down in the next several years as the plant is decommissioned. TMI Unit 2 is the site of the worst commercial nuclear accident in ...

IWAKI, Japan (AP) -- Cooling systems failed at another nuclear reactor on Japan's devastated coast Sunday, hours after an explosion at a nearby unit made leaking radiation, or even outright meltdown, ...

While Chernobyl put thousands of lives in danger, nuclear energy is still the safest form of energy. In the United States, ...

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) — Since the 1950s, the Idaho National Lab, known locally as “the site,” has been the testing grounds for nuclear reactors for both the Department of Energy and the U.S.

The Tokyo Electric Power Corp. says Unit 1 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant did, in fact, meltdown during the 2011 accident. The Tokyo Electric Power Corp. says Unit 1 at the Fukushima ...

Former President Jimmy Carter brought calm and hope to central Pennsylvanians in the wake of the most serious accident at a commercial nuclear plant in U.S. history. Carter died Sunday after starting ...