A group of S.C. senators Wednesday took issue with Dominion Energy’s plan to pocket – for its shareholders – some of the roughly $2.8 billion it wants to charge SCE&G customers over the next 20 years to pay off a failed nuclear project. Thestate.com For 2 weeks in September and October last year, traces of the humanmade isotope ruthenium-106 wafted across Europe, triggering detectors from Norway to Greece and Ukraine to Switzerland. The radioactive cloud was too thin to be dangerous, containing no more than a few grams of material, but its origin posed an outsize mystery. Sciencemag.org Rosatom and the Ministry of Scientific Research and Technological Innovations of the Republic of Congo have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. World-nuclear-news.org James Mattis, the U.S. Secretary of Defense, has been traveling the world while trying to hold back a rush to war on the Korean Peninsula, born of a rhetorical spat between his boss and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Search.yahoo.com