An atomic bomb test at Bikini Lagoon. Marshall Islands, July 1946. Today is the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and the first use of an atomic bomb in war, in this case by the United ...

By 1943, the government had acquired thousands and thousands of rural East Tennessee acres that would eventually become known as Oak Ridge -- all part of a national race to harvest enough bomb-making ...

Mark Buckner, an ORHS teacher who leads Wildcat Manufacturing, has students remove social media apps from their smartphones ...

"Longing for the Bomb traces the unusual story of the first atomic city and the emergence of American nuclear culture. Tucked into the folds of Appalachia and kept off all commercial maps, Oak Ridge, ...

Nuclear firm Oklo plans to build a $1.68 billion nuclear fuel recycling facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The project is expected to create about 800 jobs and is being touted as the largest job ...

BWX Technologies has signed an agreement and committed $525 million to purchase Kinectrics, a nuclear services company building a first-of-its-kind test facility in Oak Ridge. Both companies operate ...