The two worst nuclear accidents in history were the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima, Japan, in 2011 and Chernobyl in Pripyat, Ukraine, in 1986. Both were Level-7 incidents.

The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant continued operations until December 2000, nearly 14 years after the April 26, 1986, meltdown of one of its reactors that caused the worst nuclear accident on ...

Once home to some 50,000 people whose lives were connected to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Pripyat was hastily evacuated one day after a reactor at the plant exploded on April 26, 1986.

It was able to implement a massive integration of safety culture into the design and operation of its new nuclear power plants. The result is that Russia has become the leading exporter of nuclear ...

Nuclear power accidents in the U.S. could leave taxpayers with a $700 billion tab. The industry is only responsible for the first $12 billion in damages, and private insurance does not cover ...

The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant has been cut off from the electricity grid since September 5. Nuclear plants require power to keep their reactors cool. ED JONES/AFP via Getty Images hide caption ...

If nuclear power plant accidents are going to happen, what can we do to mitigate them? It’s a trap of a question, because the way to avoid disasters is to not be there—not to build on the fault line ...

While comparisons to Chernobyl nuclear disaster, which occurred about 300 miles away from the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, were understandable, the incidents are not easy to equate, according ...

The release of radioactive steam from a New York state nuclear reactor Tuesday night was an accident waiting to happen because of increasingly lax federal safety standards, a Public Citizen nuclear ...

On Mar. 28, 1979, 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 … ...

Receding water levels are seen this month along the Dnipro River in Ukraine’s southeast, with the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which is occupied by Russian forces, in the background.