Minister of Economic Affairs Shen Jong-chin (沈榮津) yesterday left some leeway on the government’s policy to phase out nuclear power by 2025 following a meeting with seven of the nation’s biggest trade groups. Taipeitimes.com

The Utah Legislature’s House Bill 220, Radioactive Waste Amendments, passed out of the House Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment Standing Committee and is before the full House. Sltrib.com

Oil and gas industry groups asked the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down state subsidies for economically struggling nuclear power plants. Dailycaller.com

Last month, the National Nuclear Security Administration (formerly the Atomic Energy Commission) announced that the first of a new generation of strategic nuclear weapons had rolled off the assembly line at its Pantex nuclear weapons plant in the panhandle of Texas.  Historynewsnetwork.org