The final tab for South Carolina’s failed nuclear power project could increase by $421 million after a state audit found the two utilities behind it owe sales tax on the materials they bought for the unfinished plant. Postandcourier.com
China is planning to build a university dedicated to nuclear power research to meet the severe shortage of qualified people at its rapidly-expanding atomic energy facilities at home and abroad. Thehindubusionessline.com
Executives from Enfission, LLC, a joint venture between Lightbridge Corporation (NASDAQ:LTBR), a nuclear fuel developer, and Framatome, a global leader in nuclear fuel, components, and reactor services, will present its cutting-edge metallic fuel technology at a workshop during the World Nuclear Exhibition on June 28 at 12:00 p.m. local Paris time. At the workshop, Enfission CEO Seth Grae and Enfission Project Director Aaron Totemeier will provide an overview of the development of the Lightbridge Fuel technology, designed to make existing and new nuclear power plants significantly more efficient and cost competitive. Nasdaq.com
Four consecutive American presidents have offered Israel written assurances that the US will not pressure them to relinquish their nuclear weapons program, a magazine reported this week jpost.com
