Although it has long triggered fears of meltdowns and radioactive waste, nuclear power is considered an 'extremely safe,' zero-emission power source.

Ogura can still remember that terrible morning in August, 80 years ago. Her older brother, who later died of cancer from ...

Workers at Japan's embattled Fukushima nuclear plant were evacuated earlier on Wednesday after tsunami warnings were issued ...

To demonstrate that the soil is now safe enough to repurpose, Japan announced on Tuesday plans to use some in the flower beds at the Prime Minister’s office, as reported by Japan Today. The soil ...

The Japanese government said it would earmark 100 billion yen ($970 million) in the fiscal 2014 budget to build nuclear waste storage facilities in the Fukushima Prefecture.

NAGASAKI, Japan • Eighty years ago, on Aug. 6, 1945, as the Enola Gay winged its way back to the Pacific Island of Tinian, ...

Alvarez added that the Vermont Yankee pool contains more than the entire inventory of spent fuel in the four damaged reactors at the Fukushima site in Japan. Nuclear waste has been piling up at ...

Wyoming lawmakers are wrestling with whether to green light potentially numerous nuclear waste sites throughout the state.