A Japanese nuclear plant won preliminary approval Wednesday for meeting stringent post-Fukushima safety requirements, clearing a major hurdle toward becoming the first to restart under the tighter rules. newsdaily.com

Fourteen different rice paddies outside of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant evacuation zone were contaminated with radioactive material in August 2013, Japan’s agriculture ministry has found. rt.com

Two reactors used for early nuclear energy research in Sweden are to be dismantled by Areva. world-nuclear-news.org

Nuclenor, operator of the Santa Maria de Garoña nuclear power station in Spain, has been fined 25 million US dollars by the Spanish National Commission on Financial Markets and Competition in relation to its decision to shut down the station before its operating licence expired, the commission has said in a statement. nucnet.org