The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency is warning that the risk of a nuclear accident at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has "significantly increased," following ongoing fighting ...

He said it was the first such attack since November 2022, when he set out five basic principles to avoid a serious nuclear accident with ... the dome of the plant's sixth power unit.

(These are America’s oldest nuclear power plants.) There have been very few serious nuclear incidents in the U.S. The most concerning was the accident at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania in ...

Three Mile Island, the shuttered Pennsylvania nuclear power plant that was the site of a 1979 reactor accident that remains the worst commercial nuclear power plant accident in U.S. history ...

the most significant nuclear power accident in U.S. history began after a pressure valve failed to close at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant near Harrisburg, Pa. What followed was an outcry ...

The activity is a simulation involving a nuclear power plant accident; and about a year and a half of planning went into the details. The activities will take place at sites that include the state ...

MICHIGAN -- State police and other local and federal agencies are participating in a drill intended to hone skills in the event of a nuclear power plant accident. The drill, called Cobalt Magnet ...

Belgium has used nuclear power as a source of electricity since 1974 and had initially planned to close all six of its plants by 2025. In March 2022, the country announced it would allow its two ...

and of numerically calculating the risk of a bad accident, was at the basis of many uncertainties. “A nuclear power plant’s approximately twenty thousand safety components have a Rube Goldberg ...

That section included this chronology, detailing the days around the country’s worst nuclear power plant accident, 45 years ago now. 3:53 a.m. – A malfunctioning valve causes the shutdown of ...

Fears mount of increased fighting around the contested Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. The UN has said that "We must act now to prevent the threat of a severe nuclear accident." An exiled ...

Details: The Verkhovna Rada also stated that if an accident occurs at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, it could endanger not only Ukraine, but also Europe and even Asia. Quote: "The ...