Between 1968 and 1981, the Soviet Union built seven Project 705 Lira (NATO reporting name Alfa) nuclear-powered attack ...

GIVEN THE SECRECY SURROUNDING THE SINKING, details on the sub are sparse. The Pentagon identified it as nuclear-powered, in ...

as they contain a small amount of americium-241, a side product of nuclear reactors. But what about other sources? [Carl Willis] got hold of an old Soviet era smoke detector and decided to tear it ...

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union experimented with building submarines from titanium, leading to the creation of the ...

The Russians had given the impression that they had built no nuclear power plant except the small (5,000 ... U.S. and British reactor experts were not impressed. The Soviet reactor is remarkable ...

This article explores the geopolitical implications of Kazakhstan's nuclear power referendum and the role of Russia's Rosatom in Central Asia's energy landscape.

Facilities that power cloud computing and artificial intelligence consume vast amounts of electricity, posing challenges for ...

The truth is, nuclear power’s reputation has been mostly unfairly blemished since 1970s and ’80s thanks to the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl meltdowns in Pennsylvania and Ukraine (at that time, part ...

The mysterious Chinese submarine that apparently sunk in a shipyard earlier this year was the first of a new class featuring ...

Although the next era of nuclear energy inspires big green energy ambitions, the reactors powering that vision are ...

according to Soviet officials. Two more workers died because of injuries. The body of one of them, Valery Khodemchuk, was never recovered from the reactor debris. Vasily Ignatenko, depicted in the ...