On a cold day in February, Takuto Okamoto guided his first tour group to a sight few outsiders had witnessed in person: the construction cranes looming over Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Af.reuters.com

The UK’s Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has published its annual report highlighting the extent of its regulatory activities. These included more than 1000 inspections, design acceptance confirmation for a new reactor, ongoing modernization of its regulations, and its participation in the first European topical peer review on ageing management of nuclear power plants. World-nuclear-news.org

Bruce Power said it had signed a Major Component Replacement Contract with the Shoreline Power Group Consortium, which will be responsible for successfully executing the heart of the company’s multi-year Life-Extension program, which started in 2016. Nuclearstreet.com

Brussels has not been “nuclear-positive” in recent years, but if Europe is serious about taking carbon out of its energy consumption, then nuclear energy needs to be part of the solution together with renewables, Orano chief executive Philippe Knoche said in an interview with Politico. Nucnet.com