Nuclear power and nuclear weapons might be rooted in the same technology, but not all nations pursue both. Many have nuclear energy programmes but have opted out of the weapon race.

In the popular imagination, nuclear power plants conjure fears of catastrophic explosions and radiation leaks, such as the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine in 1986. In reality, hundreds of reactors ...

The 2011 meltdowns in Fukushima, Japan, further pushed nations away from nuclear power. The U.S. tightened regulations, and Germany decided to shut down all of its reactors—a move set to be ...

1. The Koeberg nuclear power station in South Africa is the only nuclear power plant on the African continent. Its two units, with more than 1,800 MW of generation capacity in total, have operated ...

Russia, already a leader in nuclear weapons, wants to be the premier force in nuclear power plant construction. Boris Titov of the Kremlin told the FT that his country wanted to position itself as ...

As of June, 2023, Canada had accumulated approximately 3.3 million used fuel bundles that were stored temporarily at operating or retired nuclear power plants in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick.

Cheaper and cleaner nuclear plants could finally become reality—but not in the United States, where the technology was invented more than 50 years ago.

Several attacks on nuclear power plants have already taken place. In 2009 it was reported that an attack on an Iranian facility had hit its nuclear enrichment programme.

In October 2012, Greenpeace activists entered two nuclear power plants in Sweden by breaking open a gate and scaling fences without being stopped by guards. Four of them hid overnight on a roof at ...

As of early 2025, the U.S. had 54 operating nuclear plants with a combined 94 reactors. By 2050, the projects that the U.S. will need to triple nuclear capacity to keep up with electricity demand.

Each hanging fixture represents one of the 31 nuclear nations, with its relative size corresponding to the number of nuclear power plants in each. The title, Crystal Palace: ...