Seth Tupper, Rapid City Journal, August 13, 2018

Federal regulators recently abandoned a proposed survey of Native American cultural resources at a planned uranium mine site in the southwest part South Dakota, just days before a judge decided the survey is required by federal law.
https://www.theeagle.com/news/nation/court-regulators-clash-over-uranium-project-in-south-dakota/article_f40e6324-f0db-5b32-b400-f2b99cc04ae1.html

Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, August 11

A small amount of the most highly radioactive waste on the planet, spent nuclear fuel, is planned for a secretive, highly protected shipment from an Illinois nuclear power plant through Michigan and Port Huron, on its way to Canada.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/08/11/radioactive-spent-nuclear-fuel-roll-through-port-huron/959914002/

Rob Nikolewski, The San Diego Union Tribune, August 10, 2018

The utility operating the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station confirmed an incident occurred last week involving a canister containing spent nuclear fuel and has directed the contractor in charge of transferring the fuel to “take corrective actions, including additional training.”
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/energy-green/sd-fi-songs-whistleblower-20180810-story.html

John Siciliano, Washington Examiner, August 10, 2018 

Democratic Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts asked questions Friday about former Trump attorney Michael Cohen's lobbying of the Department of Energy, by which be sought to gain billions of dollars in financial assistance for a nuclear power plant on behalf of a Trump donor.
https://nypost.com/2018/08/13/power-plant-closure-could-make-nyc-rely-more-on-fossil-fuels/

William Freebairn, S&P Global, August 10, 2018

When Exelon's Oyster Creek nuclear unit disconnects from the grid at the end of September and permanently shuts, it will mark the start of a busy period of US nuclear power plant closures driven by low power prices that are placing dozens more units at risk.
https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/market-insights/latest-news/electric-power/081018-us-nuclear-units-shut-as-low-power-prices-threaten-more-retirements

Michael Hays, Las Crices Sun News, August 10, 2018
A proposal to transport commercial spent fuel from nuclear power plants in other states and store it in a new waste repository in southeastern New Mexico has opposition from progressives, environmentalists and anti-nuclear groups. They are exploiting the public’s fear of radioactivity. Yet the public has little to fear. The record is perfect: since 1957, no injury, disease or death to the public, or damage to the environment from transporting and storing commercial spent fuel.
https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/opinion/columnists/2018/08/10/record-storing-shipping-nuclear-fuel-perfect/963320002/