A federal judge says the U.S. Department of Energy doesn't need to make public documents involving spent commercial nuclear fuel shipments to eastern Idaho sought by former Idaho Gov. Cecil Andrus. Idahostatejournal.com A new £7.5million pound facility to train future generations of nuclear workers has opened in west Cumbria today. The National College for Nuclear at Lillyhall is the first of five of colleges opening around the UK to support skills development in key industries, funded by the Department for Education. Itv.com Westinghouse will extend nuclear fuel deliveries to seven of Ukraine’s fifteen nuclear power units to 2021–2025, in line with a contract signed between this firm and Ukraine’s state-owned nuclear power company Energoatom. Deliveries to Ukraine under the new deal are to begin immediately after the current contract expires in 2020. Moreover, fuel components for local nuclear power plants (NPP) will be produced not only in the United States, but also in Ukraine, with assembly to be made at a Westinghouse facility in Sweden. Energoatom President Yury Nedashkovsky said his company is the world’s only operator of the Soviet-designed VVER-1000 reactors to have fully diversified its sources of fuel supply (Energoatom.kiev.ua, January 29). Jamestown.org India fired yet another missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead on Tuesday, ratcheting up tensions over the brewing arms race with neighboring nuclear giant China. The test of an Agni-I missile follows back-to-back launches in January of the longer-range Agni-IV and even more powerful Agni-V, which is capable of hitting China’s biggest cities on the Pacific coast. Vice.com
