We are creeping closer to the apocalypse, according to a panel of scientists and scholars. Scientists has moved the ‘Doomsday Clock,’ a symbolic countdown to the end of the world, to two and a half minutes to midnight.  usatoday.com

Nuclear power could play a significant role in Poland’s energy supply, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). The use of nuclear, it said, would enable the country to boost its electricity generation capacity from clean energy sources while strengthening its energy security. world-nuclear-news.org

The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee is inviting contributions to its new inquiry into priorities for nuclear research and technologies. In 2011 the Committee investigated whether the UK’s research and development (R&D) capabilities were sufficient to meet the country’s nuclear energy needs in the future, ensuring a safe and secure supply of nuclear energy up to 2050. world-nuclear-news.org

Plans to begin spent nuclear fuel removal at Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO) Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, hit by a devastating post-earthquake tsunami in March 2011, has been postponed to sometime after March 2018, Japanese media are reporting. nuclearstreet.com