On January 3, 1961, the small Stationary Low-Power Reactor Number One (SL-1) exploded at the Idaho National Engineering ...

Next month it will have been 80 years since the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were devastated by nuclear attacks. More than 200,000 people – mostly citizens – would die by the year's end ...

Chinese researchers have unveiled a breakthrough experimental therapy that could one day protect humans from the deadly ...

Cracks in a concrete dome housing nuclear waste has sparked fears that the site could be susceptible to rising seas. Experts are having a nuclear meltdown. Cracks in a dome over a contaminated nuclear ...

A strange scarlet rock was created during the world's first nuclear explosion in 1945, and scientists have now uncovered what ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first atomic bomb was tested 80 years ago at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. However, most of us are not familiar with the ...

Life After the Atomic Blast, as Told by Hiroshima’s Survivors Eighty years after the dropping of the first atomic bomb, Hiroshima’s survivors and their descendants describe how health problems and ...

A 100-ton explosive test occurred at Trinity Site on May 7, 1945, as a rehearsal for the atomic bomb test. The 100-ton test was largely unnoticed, unlike the July 16 atomic bomb test which was seen as ...