Five miles from the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, in a wooded, suburban neighborhood, in a nondescript office building, is a very unusual room. It looks a lot like the bridge of the Starship ...

The control room has a 1940s sci-fi vibe. More than 2,000 tiny lights cover the right wall, with a sign on top that says “Caution: Bumping Panel May Cause Reactor To Scram.” Each of the lights used to ...

PLYMOUTH - A degraded electric cable led to a manual scram, or shutdown, Friday of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Plymouth. According to theNuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), control-room ...

Federal regulators plan to keep an eye on the troublesome reactor, which has experienced six emergency shutdowns, known as "scrams," in the past two years. Wednesday's 5 a.m. scram was caused by a ...

The National Park Service runs three different sites related to the World War II Manhattan Project. The one on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in southeast Washington was the first full-scale nuclear ...

Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant remains offline after experiencing its second unexpected shutdown in about a week on Saturday night. The incidents stem from the same system, which the plant's owner ...