Restart of No 6 reactor at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant suspended after malfunction related to control rods.

Nuclear power has a lot of potential, but many fear the dangers of nuclear meltdowns. Fortunately, some new reactors might make that possibility even slimmer.

TOKYO -- An underwater robot entered a damaged reactor at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant Wednesday, capturing images of the effect of its meltdown, including key structures that were torn ...

IWAKI, Japan (AP) - Cooling systems failed at another nuclear reactor on Japan's devastated coast Sunday, hours after an explosion at a nearby unit made leaking radiation, or even outright meltdown, ...

TOKYO (AP) — A remote-controlled robot has safely returned with a tiny piece of melted fuel it collected from inside one of three damaged reactors at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power ...

While Chernobyl put thousands of lives in danger, nuclear energy is still the safest form of energy. In the United States, ...