Leading Stories
Relating to economic activity concerned with goods/services in a specific sector.
Reuters, Lefteris Karagiannopoulos, August 20, 2018
Sweden’s nuclear energy regulator SSM has asked plant operators to produce plans in the coming months to shield their reactors from harmful hot weather, its director told Reuters on Monday.
World Nuclear News, August 20, 2018
Senior delegates from nuclear energy-related ministries and organisations in South Korea and the USA met on 16 August in Washington DC, in the second plenary meeting of the High Level Bilateral Commission (HLBC) of the two countries.
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Second-meeting-for-US-Korea-High-Level-Commission
Business Insider, Christopher Woody, August 20, 2018
China has stopped major land-reclamation in the South China Sea but is continuing to work on facilities it has already built there, according to the US Defense Department's annual report on Chinese military activity, which noted that China could soon add nuclear power plants to the mix.
Reuters, Staff, August 21, 2018
The U.N. nuclear watchdog said it did not find any indication that North Korea had stopped its nuclear activities, adding to doubts about the country’s willingness to abandon its arsenal.
Hakai Magazine, John Vidal, August 21, 2018
As shorelines creep inland and storms worsen, nuclear reactors around the world face new challenges
https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/are-coastal-nuclear-power-plants-ready-for-sea-level-rise/
CNBC, Amanda Macias, August 21, 2018
Moscow is preparing to recover a nuclear-powered missile lost at sea, according to sources with direct knowledge of a U.S. intelligence report.
Nasdaq, August 9
Lightbridge Corporation (NASDAQ:LTBR), a U.S. nuclear fuel technology company, today provided a business update and reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2018.
https://www.nasdaq.com/press-release/lightbridge-reports-financial-results-for-the-second-quarter-of-2018-and-provides-business-update-20180809-01106
Gavin Bade, Utility Dive, August 9, 2018
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is working with the White House, Department of Energy and the National Security Council to identify power plants that are critical to the grid, FERC Chief of Staff Anthony Pugliese told a nuclear conference this week. Identifying those plants is the first step in a White House plan to save uneconomic coal and nuclear plants from retirement detailed in a leaked NSC memo this spring.
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/report-ferc-working-with-white-house-nsc-on-coal-and-nuclear-bailout/529762/
Mary Ann Thomas, Trib Live, August 9, 2018
The volunteer efforts of a Hyde Park environmental activist and a retired Washington Township engineer helped about 300 former nuclear workers in the region collect $60 million from the federal government for cancers likely caused by their jobs.
https://triblive.com/local/valleynewsdispatch/13956792-74/volunteer-activists-credited-with-getting-compensation-for-former-nuclear-workers
Carl Campanile, New York Post, August 13, 2018
The closure of the Indian Point nuclear-power plant in 2021 could cause more reliance by the city on dirty fossil fuels — despite both Mayor de Blasio and Gov Cuomo’s stance in favor of clean energy.
https://nypost.com/2018/08/13/power-plant-closure-could-make-nyc-rely-more-on-fossil-fuels/