A worker at the Westinghouse atomic fuel factory near Columbia was transported to a hospital last week after spilling a toxic acid solution on his clothing while cleaning up, according to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Thestate.com

Twenty liters of water containing radioactive materials were accidentally released at a spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in the village of Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, earlier this week, operator Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. has said. Japantime4s.com

Just in time to power all those Christmas lights, the Prairie Island Nuclear Plant completed its scheduled outage in October with improvements for the plant’s future. Winonadailynews.com

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today inaugurated a new laboratory building that will be used for scientific work to help countries address food and agricultural challenges. The event marks the conclusion of major construction in the project to upgrade the IAEA Nuclear Applications laboratories outside Vienna, Austria.    Iaea.org