After 19 years of work to safeguard nuclear waste dating from the Cold War, workers at a sprawling Washington state site have managed to remove virtually all of the radioactive waste from 16 aging underground steel tanks at risk of leaking.  Seattletimes.com

Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that Israel, Saudi Arabia and Egypt—three of Washington’s key Middle East allies—were pressuring former President Barack Obama to “bomb Iran” before the landmark nuclear deal signed in July 2015. Nerwsweek.com

NORTH Korea’s missile launch has sparked an emergency meeting of the United Nations (UN) Security Council after it launched a ballistic missile “capable of hitting the continental US”, it has been revealed. Express.co.uk

A federal nuclear review panel still has some safety concerns about Los Alamos National Laboratory’s new multimillion-dollar storage facility for radioactive waste. Insurancejournal.com