(Photo: WPPilot)This is the St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant in Florida. Christopher Le Cun was re...  ...investigate. They were water intake vents for the nuclear plant. Each was about 16 feet wide. When he got t...  ...nt spat Le Cun into a water tank used to cool the nuclear rea...

Energy , which oversees how nuclear materials are handled in the United States, found...  ...ed in the United States, found that, on occasion, nuclear materials workers had placed highly enriched uran...  ...Matter Expert (SME), the possibility of “a *strong class="matche...

(Photo: The Troy II-C nuclear ramjet engine via the US Department of Energy )In 1957, the United States began secretly develop...  ...w type of aircraft. This was the Atomic Age, when nuclear energy seemed to offer unlimited energy in num...

(Photo: unknown)Have we learned nothing from Spider-Man? When humanity’s knowledge outstrips its wisdom, we end up with superheroes or supervillains, both of which are trouble. Move the spider farm someplace else....

The results of a survey conducted by the Pew Resea...  ...fic opinion existed on topics such as pesticides, nuclear power and offshore oil and gas drilling as well....

Aerospace engineer Kirk Sorensen became interested...  ...space engineer Kirk Sorensen became interested in nuclear energy by reading records of experiments done by Alvin W...  ...and his team after World War II at the Oak Ridge Nuclear Plant. What really captured Sorenson's attention...  ...f thorium, which has...