The Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania will be permanently shut down around the end of September 2019 if there are no policy reforms, US utility Exelon announced today. The company had warned last week the plant was at risk of early retirement.  World-nuclear-news.org

Westinghouse Electric Company said Tuesday that, together with its eight European consortium partners, it had reached a milestone with the approval of the conceptual design for fuel for the VVER-440 assemblies, which is an enhanced version of a previous Westinghouse fuel product that was delivered to the Loviisa Nuclear Power Plant in Finland from 2001 to 2007. Nuclearstreet.com

At the end of this year’s Nuclear Industry Forum, talk turned to the psychology of nuclear propaganda, including why – as Imperial University fellow Malcolm Grimston explains -calling it safe is not always a good thing. Power-techynology.com

Connecticut lawmakers have proposed legislation to save in-state nuclear reactors by classifying them as green energy, which would allow them to better compete with heavily subsidized wind and solar power. Dailycaller.com