The majority state-owned energy utility ČEZ and the United Kingdom’s Rolls-Royce SMR have signed an agreement to begin ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Russia's nuclear power company says a Soviet-built nuclear reactor has been taken out of operation after 45 years of service.

June 27, 1954, marked the beginning of the nuclear energetics history. The Soviet Union achieved a milestone in energy production, by launching the world's first nuclear power plant at Obninsk ...

The Soviet Union became a gerontocracy in its final years, contributing to its collapse. Historians say it's a cautionary tale for the US, whose leaders have been in power for decades. One Soviet ...

AP photographer Efrem Lukatsky has visited the Chernobyl power plant and the highly contaminated zone dozens of times since a 1986 reactor explosion caused the world’s worst nuclear accident. He ...

Newcleo has signed an MOU with Lithuania’s Ignalina NPP to explore fast reactor tech, reuse spent fuel, and integrate SMRs ...

As the Soviet Union disintegrated, Thomas L. Neff came up with an improbable idea. What if Soviet nuclear warheads could light up American cities rather than obliterate them? What if the United ...

Russia’s bombardment of Ukraine could trigger a Chernobyl-like event. Here’s why In 1986, a nuclear calamity that helped bring down the Soviet empire began in Ukraine. Could it happen again?

Soviet-designed Ignalina could be the first graphite-moderated reactor plant to be dismantled, making it an important test bed for methodologies that could be used to decommission the U.K.'s ...

Immediately after the accident the Soviet Union cordoned off the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, an area with a 30-kilometer radius around the reactor complex. Access by people was severely restricted.