nuclear power plant accidents

By COREY WILLIAMS - Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — In a boom, a low rumble and a vibrating crash, the looming smokestack of a shuttered trash incinerator whose stench sickened and angered…

By COREY WILLIAMS - Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The looming smokestack of a shuttered trash incinerator whose stench sickened and angered Detroit residents for decades is coming down in a…

MONTICELLO, Minn. (AP) — More than half of a radioactive isotope that leaked from a pipe at a Minnesota nuclear plant has been recovered, while crews are making “substantial progress” in recovering contaminated groundwater,…

By TRISHA AHMED and MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press MONTICELLO, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota utility began shutting down a nuclear power plant near Minneapolis on Friday after failing to stop the release of…

AP MONTICELLO, Minn. (AP) — The company that owns a nuclear power plant northwest of Minneapolis said Thursday that water containing a radioactive material is leaking from the plant for a second time,…

By MICHAEL PHILLIS and AMANCAI BIRABEN - Associated Press Minnesota regulators knew four months ago that radioactive waste had leaked from a nuclear power plant in Monticello — but they didn’t announce…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI - Associated Press ST.. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota regulators said Thursday they're monitoring the cleanup of a leak of 400,000 gallons of radioactive water from Xcel Energy's…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A United Nations human rights expert urged Japan's government on Friday to provide evacuees from the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster with more support,…

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.)Cham Dallas, University of Georgia(THE CONVERSATION) Because several generations have passed since the atomic…

By The Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked the United States for the $40 billion aid package, which got final congressional approval on Thursday.“This is a…