A nuclear power plant probably isn’t what comes to mind when you think of a school field trip. But in anticipation of Nuclear Science Week, hosted in Ann Arbor this year from Oct. 21-17, DTE and The ...

As we looked down at the plant from an area where PG&E stores canisters of spent fuel — no photos of the domes allowed from up here, for security reasons — Jones said Diablo Canyon is so ...

Scenes from the pursuit of power at atomic plants around the worldBy Jeffrey Kluger It was in 1942 that physics legend Enrico Fermi switched on the first functioning nuclear reactor, using an 8-ft ...

Check out that unearthly blue glow, thrumming with mysterious power. It’s not a starship’s engine room — it’s the inside of the nuclear power plant Grundremmingen, in southern Germany.

The meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in 2011 was the worst nuclear disaster in history. It's also a place where technology plays a unique -- and critical -- role in the ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul has directed the state’s public electric utility to add at least 1 gigawatt of new nuclear-power production ...

TONOPAH, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) - Arizona’s Family recently got a look inside the Palo Verde Generating Station, the largest nuclear power plant in the country.The plant is housed on 4,000 acres of land ...

For the first week of the still precarious nuclear crisis unfolding at Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station there were few photographs of the plant itself.

Alan spent his entire career within the nuclear energy industry, holding top positions at various nuclear power plants, including Palisades. He retired from the Michigan plant in 2012.

Go inside the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the site of one of the worst nuclear disasters in history. Experts say more than 70,000 people experienced severe poisoning.

On March 28, 1979, Three Mile Island’s Unit 2 was the site of the worst commercial nuclear power incident in U.S. history, sparking a national debate over the technology.