The Nuclear Regulatory Commission released an environmental impact study for continued operations of the power plant.

Pete Johnson, a civil inspector at the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, looks at stockpiled breakwater supports. The concrete tri-bar units weigh 20 tons each. Seen here on January 29, 1981.

PG&E must repay the $43.2 million in costs associated with an inadequate fix of the aging Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, according to a new regulatory ruling that blames the utility for lapsed ...

Meteorites carry clues that are pivotal in exploring the history of our Solar System, yet they don’t all look the same after impact. Colliding with a planetary surface sends shockwaves through ...

Such explosions occur on carbon-rich meteorites (left), but not on carbon-poor ones (right).” The team thus concluded that carbon-containing meteorites are no less shocked, but that, in fact ...

A meteorite that struck northwestern Scotland about a billion years ago may have collided 200 million years later than initially believed. New research from Curtin University in Australia analyzed ...

Geologists have found that an ancient meteorite hit Scotland 200 million years later than previously thought, which has massive implications for the geological history of the region and some of ...