The Tsunami and Nuclear Crisis: 1 Year Later

Newly released audio takes us through the first week of the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi on this first anniversary of the crisis. David Biello reports

The U.S. has reactors of the same designs that melted down at Fukushima Daiichi, but regulators hope changes could prevent a repeat of Japan's nuclear crisis

A look back at Japan's nuclear crisis, initiated by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake on March 11, 2011

Scientists model where and when the detritus will reach the U.S. west coast

Heart disease and depression are likely to claim more lives than radiation after the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident, experts say

The Fukushima evacuation zone raises the issue of what would happen during an evacuation in heavily populated U.S. metropolises during a nuclear meltdown

But no nuclear renaissance appears to be imminent, despite the go-ahead to build and operate two new reactors in Georgia

The massive shift, laterally and upward, caused the epic March 2011 tsunami

Three months after its meltdown, the stricken nuclear power plant continues to struggle to cool its nuclear fuel--and cope with growing amounts of radioactive cooling water

China pauses its plans to build the most new nuclear reactors in the world in the wake of the accident at Fukushima Daiichi in Japan--but will not halt them

On the eve of the 25th anniversary of the nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine, Scientific American frequent contributor Charles Q. Choi traveled to the site and snapped these haunting images

Maps and on-the-ground views reveal the aftermath and its extent

A survey of executives at companies engaged in energy alternatives to fossil fuels reveals some of the challenges facing the industry