Update: President Trump announced the U.S. launched strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities, including Fordo, on Saturday, June 21. Read the latest here. Iran has two known underground nuclear ...

Nuclear waste. We've all heard about it but what exactly is it and why is it so important? How big is the problem and is it a problem without a solution? New Atlas takes a look at the basics.

Similarly, the Middle East war has undermined nuclear guardrails. Iran may become a nuclear weapons state in response to Israel’s debilitating attacks on it and its proxies.

70 years later, an alarm against nuclear proliferation rings louder than ever by Abigail R. Hall and Christopher J. Coyne, opinion contributors - 07/30/25 10:30 AM ET ...

"The issue of nuclear terrorism remains very much a real one, there are enormous stakes involved and the risks are high, but the issue has been falling off the radar screen of the American public ...

The Nuclear Company will open its primary Columbia, South Carolina office to create at least 100 jobs and support new reactor construction in the U.S.

Nuclear energy has remained a consistent area of interest across several U.S. administrations because of its role in low-carbon energy generation, national security, and global competitiveness.

In 1986, the severe nuclear accident in Chernobyl in the Soviet Union further increased opposition to nuclear power globally. In the U.S., the construction of new nuclear power plants halted.

Part of a portable nuclear power plant arrives at Camp Century in 1960. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images In a tunnel 40 feet beneath the surface of the Greenland ice sheet, a Geiger counter screamed ...

Others say the idea that a nuclear war could be kept “limited” is a dangerous notion that only makes such a war — and the risk that it could escalate to something not so limited — more likely.

On December 5th, scientists at the National Ignition Facility reached a breakthrough in nuclear fusion by producing a reaction with an energy gain. It could be a step toward a world in the distant ...

Daniel Ford writes about Thomas Wellock’s recent volume on the history of civil-nuclear-energy regulation in the U.S., which reveals that federal regulators consistently assured Americans that ...