How fast does radiation dissipate following a nuclear disaster? There have only been a handful of reactor meltdowns throughout the history of nuclear engineering, but the 1986 explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine and the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster are among the most notable.

Today marks 15 years since the nuclear disaster at Fukushima, Japan. Some parts of the surrounding area are still recovering.

Mikhail Ulyanov warned that a projectile near Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant in Iran poses a risk for a "major nuclear disaster."

Japan is marking the 15th anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster on its northeastern coast as the government pushes for atomic energy use.

After Fukushima, Japan shut down its nuclear reactors. Now, the country is returning to nuclear energy, seen as a reliable low-carbon option.

Nature is reclaiming abandoned buildings in the exclusion zone surrounding Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, an area that appears frozen in time 15 years after disaster struck.

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Japanese nuclear engineer Goto Masashi warned Taiwan against restarting idle nuclear power plants during a forum in Taipei on Wednesday marking the 15th anniversary of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, describing nuclear facilities as “time bombs.”

An energy analysis published by JPMorgan has put some numbers on the extent of that error that German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has admitted from its decision to shutter nuclear production in wake of the accident at Japan’s Fukushima plant in 2011.

Nuclear power grew in popularity during the 1960s and 1970s — until 4 AM on March 28, 1979,

This regulation didn't make anyone safer but it did make it harder to build nuclear energy projects in the United States.