TEPCO said it had removed a 20-ton fuel handling machine (FHM) from the severely damaged Unit 3 reactor building, completing the safe extraction of the largest piece of rubble from the site after extensive preparations. nuclearstreet.com A trio of former top executives at a Japanese power giant are to appear in court over the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant in 2011. bbc.com EDF Energy Customers, a subsidiary of French utility giant Electricite de France, has named preferred bidders for the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in Britain, although HSBC Bank criticized the lofty price tag for the project this week. nuclearstreet.com Finnish utility Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) and the Areva-Siemens consortium have both increased the amounts claimed in arbitration over the delay in construction of the first-of-a-kind EPR at Olkiluoto. world-nuclear-news.org
