The heat-generating chain reaction inside a nuclear power station takes place under highly controlled conditions within the reactor core. Uranium-235 atoms can spontaneously break-apart (fission) ...

Heat generated inside a nuclear reactor core from nuclear fission is used to convert water into steam, which then drives an electric turbine alternator. As the turbine spins it produces alternating ...

the incredible energy released by nuclear fission inside the reactor’s core is used to heat water, which generates high pressure steam that powers turbines connected to electrical generators.

A remote-controlled robot has safely returned with a tiny piece of melted fuel it collected from inside one of three damaged ...

The world’s first production scale reactor built at the Hanford nuclear site near Richland in Eastern Washington changed the ...

More than 13 years after an earthquake-turned-tsunami triggered the second-largest nuclear accident in global history, a ...

About 880 tons of highly radioactive melted nuclear fuel remain inside the three damaged reactors ... The drone cameras could ...

Japan has taken a major step toward revolutionizing energy production with the launch of the JT-60SA reactor, the world’s ...

Constellation Energy will revive the half-century-old nuclear power plant to supply electricity for Microsoft's data centers.

OpenStar Technologies completes New Zealand's first fusion energy device core component - a half-tonne doughnut-shaped magnet ...

About 880 tons of melted nuclear fuel remain inside the three damaged reactors ... The fuel in the worst-damaged No. 1 reactor mostly fell from the core to the bottom of its primary containment ...

Officials hoped to film the core’s bottom to find out ... About 880 tons of highly radioactive melted nuclear fuel remain inside the three damaged reactors. Critics say the 30- to 40-year ...