Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive material split, emitting neutrons.

TOKYO, May 14 (Reuters) - The local assembly in a Japanese town that hosts a nuclear plant agreed on Monday it was necessary to restart two off-line reactors, its chairman said, the first such nod ...

The Niigata Prefectural Assembly has backed Niigata Governor Hideyo Hanazumi's decision to approve the restart of units 6 and 7 at Tokyo Electric Power Company's Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant ...