China and Belgium have signed a framework agreement on cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear energy. The agreement was one of several accords signed in Brussels yesterday during a meeting between Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel. World-nuclear-news.org Most of the Ottawa council candidates who answered a survey by Ecology Ottawa say they oppose construction of a low-level radioactive waste facility at Chalk River. Ottawacitizen.com South Carolina’s top elected officials came to the White House on Thursday to defend an imperiled nuclear fuel facility in their state, but left without being able to report definitively whether the project would survive the Trump administration’s latest attempts to kill it. Greenvilleonline.com Russia and Uzbekistan began preliminary work on Friday on the first Uzbek nuclear power plant, a project Moscow estimates will cost $11 billion. Reuters.com
