While the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion program this engine was built to support was scuttled in 1961, the TAN shortline and its strange locomotive reportedly continued to be used into the 1980s to ...

A locomotive used to transport nuclear material around the Sellafield nuclear site has been returned to the firm that rebuilt it. Sellafield Ltd said it was replacing its diesel vehicles with ...

The nuclear power source would have been a solution of fissionable U-235, contained in a tank 3 feet long and a foot in diameter. This would, in turn, have been enclosed within a 200-ton shield.

The locomotive was almost completely destroyed and the entire train derailed. That 50-ton cage was tossed to the wayside like paperweight. In the aftermath, the pressure inside the flask was ...

Instead, it was a scientific experiment carried out in the 1980s that saw a 100 mph train smash into a nuclear waste canister to show just how strong the container was.

Casting nuclear power as an essential replacement for fossil fuels, more than 20 countries — including the United States, Canada, France and Ghana — signed a pledge to triple nuclear power by ...

A lead canister carrying the fuel rods from the U.S. Army’s Camp Century nuclear reactor in Greenland, during decommissioning in 1960s. Jon Fresch / U.S. Army ...

A satellite image shows damage at the Arak nuclear site. The main react is hit, along with three other structures. Distillation towers hit Building destroyed Nuclear reactor struck Distillation ...

Old No. 1401, as the locomotive is known, did not roll across tracks laid on the Mall. That might have been easier. Nor was the museum built around the engine, as Answer Man once believed.

The Atucha site (Image: NA-SA) The nuclear power plant, to be sited near Lima, about 100 kilometres north west of Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires, will use China's Hualong One technology - the ...

A proposed transportation plan by Canada's nuclear industry would see up to 30,000 shipments of highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel rods travel through some of Ontario's most densely populated ...