French utility EDF said on Thursday that the extension of outages at its Flamanville 2 and Paluel 4 nuclear reactors was due to a series of technical issues. Euronews.com

Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine joined a Democratic colleague from Illinois in filing proposed new legislation that would provide federal assistance to communities that store nuclear waste, including Wiscasset. Thecentersquare.com

Nuclear power, apart from destroying biodiversity throughout its life cycle, produces up to 37 times the CO₂ emissions of renewable energy sources, owing partly to the mining and refining of uranium.  Theguardian.com

Two people jumped a security fence at a GE Hitachi research reactor near San Francisco, the U.S. nuclear power regulator said on Thursday, raising concerns over a plant that is one of the few in the country that uses highly enriched uranium, a material that could be used to make an atomic bomb. Finance.yahoo.com