Three Mile Island and Nuclear Power

Tom Zoellner's book Uranium explores how a historic mine in Africa poses an existential threat in this excerpt

Robots cleaned up what humans could not because of radioactive contamination after the worst nuclear accident in the nation's history 30 years ago

Imitating the sun remains an elusive goal for energy researchers. David Biello reports

Nuclear power--like most forms of electricity generation--carries inherent risks. Is it worth the minor chance of a major catastrophe?

Nuclear waste is either a millennia's worth of lethal garbage or the fuel of future nuclear reactors--or both

Using comic books to explore the issues and history of nuclear power

Even environmentalists are reevaluating nuclear power as a possible solution to global warming, but can it really help?

A new wave of nuclear power plant construction has boosted the price of uranium reactor fuel

Newly approved reactor designs could reduce global warming and fossil-fuel dependence, but utilities are grappling with whether better nukes make market sense

What companies are doing to keep consumers out of the dark when a power facility fails

An obscure scale helps communicate the relative severity of a nuclear accident

A threefold expansion of nuclear power could contribute significantly to staving off climate change by avoiding one billion to two billion tons of carbon emissions annually