On 6/17/2015, TEPCO announced they detected 56,000 Bq/Kg of Cs-134/137 from spotbelly rockfish caught in Fukushima plant port. This is 560 times much as the safety limit and the sample was collected near the central area of the port. Sampling date was 5/12/2015. fukushima-diary.com

In a show of confidence, the nation’s top three banks and other financial organizations who have been funding embattled Tokyo Electric Power Co. have agreed to extend 280 billion yen ($2.26 billion) in loans to the utility for the fiscal year. ajw.ashai.com

High-stakes talks to nail down a historic deal with Iran to curtail its nuclear program may “slip” past a June 30 deadline, a top US official admitted Thursday ahead of crunch weekend negotiations in Vienna. news.yahoo.com

Fortum’s future participation in the Hanhikivi nuclear power plant project remains unclear as the Finnish electricity producer’s talks with Rosatom and Gazprom Energo on restructuring Russia’s territorial generating company TGC-1 have yet to reach agreement. world-nuclear-news.org