Not all nuclear accidents make global headlines, but SL-1 was significant for being the first to take American lives. On January 3, 1961, three men died instantly when a small experimental reactor ...

Could a single mistake cause a nuclear meltdown? The SL-1 reactor explosion was a deadly incident that changed the way nuclear safety was handled forever. But what went wrong, and how did it happen?

Damage inflicted by a drone strike on the protective structure surrounding a reactor at Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant has left it unable to perform its core safety role, Reuters reported, ...

Europe's largest nuclear power plant was hit by Russian shelling early Friday, sparking a fire and raising fears of a disaster that could affect all of central Europe for decades, like the 1986 ...