NPR's Leila Fadel asks Iran expert Ali Vaez of the International Crisis Group about Iran's nuclear capabilities before and after U.S. and Israeli attacks.

The backup power line had only just been restored the previous day, further emphasizing the continued fragility of nuclear safety conditions amid the conflict, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano ...

In an interview with "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said there had already been damage done to Iran's nuclear sites ...

International Atomic Energy Agency head Rafael Grossi said Iran's nuclear program is heavily damaged, "but the material will still be there and the enrichment capacities will be there." ...

Iran and Russia have both alleged that a projectile struck the grounds of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in the Islamic Republic, raising the specter of a radiological incident as Tehran’s war with ...

The war in Iran has cut off diplomatic efforts to limit the country’s development of nuclear weapons. Securing that material and equipment in other ways would be difficult and dangerous.

The first light water reactor of the VVER type has achieved full power at Russia's Kursk II nuclear facility being developed near Ukraine.

The U.S. launches the UPRISE initiative to boost nuclear power output through reactor uprates, restarts, and upgrades.

World leaders, government ministers and heads of industry, international organizations and international financial institutions gathered in Paris this week for the 2026 Nuclear Energy Summit, ...

Although President Trump has claimed Iran was weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon, much more work was needed for the country to do so ...

Schuyler County in New York is home to a bucolic state park, an automobile race track and one day—if Judy McKinney Cherry has her way—a nuclear power plant. In summer 2025, Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered ...

TerraPower’s project in Wyoming, which uses novel technology, is the first new commercial reactor to receive federal approval in nearly a decade. By Brad Plumer Reporting from Washington A novel type ...