Atomic nuclei are often described as orderly systems. Certain numbers of protons or neutrons, called magic numbers, usually produce especially stable and spherical nuclei. These numbers fill entire ...

While scientists have a pretty good handle on how protons and neutrons form stable nuclei, there are exceptions to those well-established rules. Known as “Islands of Inversion,” these areas are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — Residents will get to hear directly from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on the reopening of Three ...

The outer dome of the double-layered containment building of unit 4 of the Haiyang nuclear power plant has been installed, ...

Forty years after the worst commercial nuclear power plant accident in U.S. history unfolded on Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, the only nuclear power reactor still operating there is preparing to ...

The Department of Energy is backing Constellation Energy's restart of Three Mile Island Unit 1 with a $1 billion loan. Constellation unveiled plans last year to restart the plant through a power ...

Thank you, LNP | LancasterOnline, for summarizing the July 31 Nuclear Regulatory Commission hearing (“ ‘Feels like a charade’: Residents push back on feds over restart of Three Mile Island nuclear ...

Constellation Energy received a $1 billion federal loan to restart the Unit 1 reactor at the Three Mile Island plant, which has been renamed the Crane Clean Energy Center. The revival of the reactor ...

DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — Residents will get to hear directly from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on the reopening of Three Mile Island. The commission announced two meetings in the coming weeks ...