On April 26, 1986, the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), ...

The reactor had been offline for over a decade, and the company wanted to fire it back up, but the reactor had different ...

The operator says reactor remains "stable" and has no "radioactive impact outside".

At 3:39 p.m. on January 21, 1968, the aircraft slammed into the ice seven miles west of the base. The impact carved a ...

Japan restars a reactor at the world's largest nuclear plant nearly 15 years after the Fukushima disaster.

The “Elephant’s Foot” formed by the Chernobyl disaster. A protective shield at Ukraine’s Chernobyl power plant, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, has been in disrepair for 10 months as a ...

Data centers consume tons of electricity and fresh water. According to Pew Research data, 4% of the United State's total electricity in 2024 went to data centers. Altogether, they consumed about 183 ...

After 15 years, Japan has restarted a reactor at the world's largest nuclear plant, which was shut down after the 2011 ...

TOKYO — Japan has restarted operations at the world’s largest nuclear power plant, marking a historic shift in the country’s ...

It was the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986. Following the disaster, Japan shut down all 54 of its nuclear power stations including Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, which sits in the coastal ...

(CNN) — Japanese authorities have approved a decision to restart the world’s biggest nuclear power plant, which has sat dormant for more than a decade following the Fukushima nuclear disaster, in a ...