Natanz, Isfahan and Fordow, killing several Iranian nuclear scientists. The facilities are heavily fortified and largely ...

An explanation of nuclear weapons, why they're so dangerous, which countries have them and what's being done to prevent their ...

Iran said on Monday its parliament was preparing a bill that could push the Islamic Republic towards exiting the nuclear ...

The ongoing standoff over Iran's uranium enrichment program has emerged as the defining obstacle in stalled nuclear negotiations. At the core of the dispute is Tehran's insistence on continuing ...

Nuclear power is generated by splitting atoms to release the energy held at the core, or nucleus, of those atoms. This process, nuclear fission, generates heat that is directed to a cooling agent ...

Nuclear fusion is the merging of two light atomic nuclei into one heavier one. If it can be harnessed on Earth, it could generate clean, limitless energy.

Tánaiste Simon Harris, along with other EU foreign ministers, have met in Brussels this morning to discuss the ongoing ...

Nuclear fusion is what keeps the Sun burning as an almost unlimited ball of energy at the heart of our solar system. To understand nuclear fusion, there are tiny particles that make up everything ...

The post-Cold-War nuclear disarmament period is over, Pentagon says NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to nuclear expert James Acton from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace about the dangers ...

Iran said on Monday its parliament was preparing a bill that could push the Islamic Republic towards exiting the nuclear ...

Uranium enrichment increases the concentration of uranium-235, the isotope needed for nuclear energy or weapons. Reactor fuel typically requires enrichment to 3–5 percent, while weapons-grade ...