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U.S. government nuclear experts believe a spent fuel pool at Japan's crippled Fukushima reactor complex has a breach in the wall or floor, a situation that creates a major obstacle to refilling the pool with cooling water and keeping dangerous levels of...

Fighting exhaustion and radiation fears, engineers struggled anew Saturday to complete the crucial task of hooking a crippled nuclear plant to the electricity grid to help cool down damaged reactors. The official count of dead and missing in the quake and...

TRAVERSE CITY — A Canadian power company has withdrawn its request for U.S. permission to ship 16 scrapped steam generators with radioactive contents on three of the Great Lakes, saying it wants to consult further with critics of the plan before...

The International Atomic Energy Agency is using Facebook and YouTube to issue updates on nuclear plant damaged in Japan's earthquake and tsunami over the weekend. The IAEA is posting updates in the form of both status messages and notes and has done so...

Clouds billowed hundreds of feet into the air after a second hydrogen explosion struck the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan on Monday. The Associated Press has posted video, from Japan's NHK news channel, of the blast to its YouTube page which can be seen...

AT&T said on Monday that it wireless calls and text messages sent from the U.S. to Japan will be free for the rest of March, in light of the crisis that has resulted from Japan's earthquake and tsunami. Calls and texts as far back as Friday, March 11,...

Japan is working to stave off a potential nuclear disaster after a third reactor experienced an explosion and a fourth caught fire on Monday. Nuclear and health officials have warned of potential health risks, and Japan's Prime Minister has ordered people...

Sprint and T-Mobile are lifting fees for calls and text messages made to Japan in response to the earthquakes and tsunami that have rocked the nation and sent it into a nuclear power plant crisis. Sprint is waiving or crediting fees for wireless calls and...

If you caught the April 1 episode of "This American Life," a fear of nuclear power may have been cemented. In one segment, actors read harrowing passages from "Voices from Chernobyl," a collection of interviews that documents how people were......

The first book by Mohamed ElBaradei, who has emerged as an opposition leader in Egypt, will be rushed to shelves this spring....

Nobel Peace laureate Mohamed ElBaradei said Sunday that he will not negotiate with the Egyptian government until President Hosni Mubarak steps down. "The whole idea was to move that regime to a new regime," ElBaradei said on CNN's "Fareed Zakaria......

After declaring he would convene a national council on rebuilding within 10 days, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan visited the devastated city of Rikuzentakata on Saturday as well as the site serving as the emergency staging headquarters for the...