In 1951, the U.S. government built the country's f...  ...r reactor, an experiment to show the country that nuclear power could be used for a peaceful purpose- generating...  ...electricity. And it worked, as far as generating power goes, but it was an experiment. As such, the scie...  ...e most stable way." Tha...

World Science Festival published a two-part articl...  ...they look at the ethics of the Manhattan Project, nuclear weapons, and the nuclear power industry that grew out of it. In the 1940s, those...  ...the end of World War II, the sheer unprecedented power of the bomb planted...

Quick -how many nuclear accidents can you name? Chernobyl, Three Mile Isl...  ...ima …any more? There have been quite a few nuclear accidents of varying danger that you probably nev...  ...uding some fatal incidents. For example, in 1957, nuclear waste exploded at a react...

The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant in the Philippines was built decades ago, b...  ...is quite an expense, but its owner, the National Power Corporation, has turned the site into a tourist a...  ...a tourist attraction! You can take a tour of the nuclear reactor (something you c...

Four reactors in Japan, Scotland and Israel were recently shutdown after jellyfish blocked the screens used to filter out the seawater needed to cool down the reactors. Apparently there have been dozens of similar shut d...

In the 1950s, nuclear power was seen as the answer to everything. Engineers w...  ...e answer to everything. Engineers were working on nuclear powered planes, automobiles, and trains, and searching fo...  ...d trains, and searching for other ways to use the power of the atom...

The German site Zeit Online posted a map in wh...  ...n compare the evacuation around Japan's Fukushima power plant to the populations around nuclear plants in the US and Canada. You can adjust the a...  ...the Callaway (Missouri) pressurized-water reactor nuclear plant, shown...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DAR...  ...gy. One of their current projects is to design a nuclear reactor that can be sustained with human and anim...  ...dens around sourcing adequate fuel — whether to power jets and facilities or burn off heaps of odorous...

That's the World Thorium Fuel concept car by Cadil...  ...ow), designed by Loren Kulesus, is supposed to be powered by the nuclear fuel thorium and therefore last 100 years (Whaaa?...  ...fuel thorium and therefore last 100 years (Whaaa? Nuclear fuel in a car? What a great idea...

The Badger Detonation: a 23 kiloton nuclear explosion fired on April 18, 1953 at the Nevada T...  ...rm two superpowers to the teeth with thousands of nuclear warheads. Make sure they’re deeply hostile...  ...ernative explanation was that a full-scale Soviet nuclear first...