The OECD-Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and the US-based Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to exchange global nuclear research experience. The MOU outlines the scope and objectives of a five-year agreement to establish dialogue between them. Representatives of each organisation will now be invited to participate in each other's committee meetings and they may also organise joint events, seminars, workshops and training activities. World-nuclear-news.org Over the next nine years, six nuclear power plants are expected to close unless economic interventions are put into place to keep at least one of them operating, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said Tuesday. Nuclearstreet.com An environmental group has filed a petition with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in opposition to the small modular reactor proposed for a Clinch River site by the Tennessee Valley Authority. Knoxnews.com Radiation warning alarms sounded Thursday at a former plutonium production plant in Washington state, prompting a take-cover order that sent about 350 workers seeking cover indoors during the demolition of a plant that for decades had helped make nuclear weapons. Startribune.com
