In 1999, a boiler explosion occurred on Unit 3 at Pacific Gas & Electric’s 170 MW Hunters Point power plant. At the time of the accident the unit was being ramped down.

The two worst nuclear accidents in history were the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima, Japan, in 2011 and Chernobyl in Pripyat, Ukraine, in 1986. Both were Level-7 incidents.

Once home to some 50,000 people whose lives were connected to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Pripyat was hastily evacuated one day after a reactor at the plant exploded on April 26, 1986.

The operator of the Mihama nuclear power plant on the Sea of Japan coast is considering resuming geological surveys for the construction of a new plant. If realized, a new reactor would be the first ...

On Mar. 28, 1979, the most significant nuclear power accident in U.S. history began after a pressure valve failed to close at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant near Harrisburg, Pa. What followed … ...

After the accident, public support for nuclear energy in the United States fell from a record high of 69 percent in 1977 to 46 percent in 1979. The next power plant in the United States would not be ...

At Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, risk of an accident has increased The head of the world's atomic watchdog warned that the reactors at Zaporizhzhia might have to be shut down. That ...

If nuclear power plant accidents are going to happen, what can we do to mitigate them? It’s a trap of a question, because the way to avoid disasters is to not be there—not to build on the fault line ...

KIEV — Ukraine's Energy Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn said Wednesday an accident at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in southeast Ukraine posed no danger and that the plant would return to ...

Coal power produces far larger quantities of toxic waste than nuclear, when normalizing on power output. A 1 gigawatt coal power plant outputs around 300,000 tons of toxic waste per year, compared ...

Accidents at New Jersey’s Oyster Creek power plant have spurred calls for stricter oversight of the burgeoning nuclear decommissioning industry May 13, 2022 More than 3 years ago ...

This quote by Donald Tanner, Executive Director, National Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors sums up in a nutshell the need to be vigilant in the operation of power plants Gas Turbines ...