Energoatom has received regulatory approval to start construction of a central used fuel storage facility at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine.

DTE Energy had to notify state and federal officials after its Fermi 2 nuclear power plant in southeast Michigan recently sent higher-than-normal chlorine amounts into Lake Erie, according to The Associated Press and the Monroe News. Mlive.com

Possible demise of SCE&G nuclear project stokes fears in poor South Carolina county. Thestate.com

       France is working on an underground repository for permanent disposal of radioactive waste. The Industrial Geological Storage Center (Cigéo) will be located in a system of tunnels in a natural layer of clay in Meuse/Haute Marne east of Paris. EDF, Areva and the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission are generators of radioactive waste in France including spent nuclear fuel.