If I mention nuclear reactor accidents, you’d probably think of Three Mile Island, Fukushima, or maybe Chernobyl (or, now, Chornobyl). But there have been others that, for whatever reason, aren’t as ...
Nations are racing to deploy advanced reactors for cleaner, more secure nuclear energy, which ...
The announcement comes just days after NPR revealed the administration had secretly rewritten safety and environmental ...
Severe accidents in nuclear reactors, though low-probability events, pose significant risks to human safety, the environment, and public trust in nuclear ...
IAEA Concludes Long Term Operational Safety Review of South Africa’s SAFARI-1 Research Reactor An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of nuclear safety experts on Friday completed a review ...
This Beebe symposium will explore how experiences from past nuclear plant accidents can be used to mitigate the consequences of future accidents, if they occur. A National Research Council committee ...
Three major nuclear reactor accidents—Three Mile Island (1979 in the United States), Chernobyl (1986 in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union), and Fukushima Dai-ichi (2011 in Japan)—significantly ...
A National Research Council committee will organize the 2014 Gilbert W. Beebe Symposium on Applying Lessons Learned to Mitigate the Consequences of Nuclear Power Plant Accidents. This Beebe symposium ...