Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the summer of 1995, the EPA decommissioned a nuclear site near Detroit, Michigan—the strange thing is that it was a backyard ...

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New reactors use novel materials and compact designs to make nuclear power safer and cheaper. Nuclear power has been a critical part of the electricity grid for decades, but old reactor designs—which ...

Top of an RBMK at the Leningrad plant. Control panels of a pre-digitalization nuclear plant look quite daunting, with countless dials, buttons and switches that all make perfect sense to a trained ...