The “nuclear option” is a maneuver that allows the majority party to override the Senate’s standing rules with a simple majority vote, as opposed to the usually required two-thirds supermajority. It has most commonly been discussed as a procedural tactic to defuse the threat of a filibuster slowing down or blocking the majority party’s agenda.

Russia is offering the United States a deal that would extend by one year the last remaining nuclear arms treaty between the two countries, known as New START.

Europe's largest nuclear power plant, located in Ukraine but run by Russia, has been cut off from external power for days.

To date, US nuclear doctrine has worked; no one has launched a nuclear attack on the United States, or anyone else, since the end of World War II.

WEC Energy Group and EnergySolutions are exploring building a new nuclear power plant at the site of the closed Kewaunee Power Station. The project is in its early planning stages, which could take up to two years before a proposal is submitted for regulatory review.

The Millstone Power Station, Unit 2 in Waterford was issued an operating license on Sept. 26, 1975, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant entered its fifth day running on emergency generators Saturday, creating mounting safety concerns at Europe’s largest nuclear facility

If we can’t build it here, China will happily build it for us, and we can use our position of global leadership,” U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans said at a workforce roundtable at Aims