Tokyo almost built a bomb in 1945 and now has enough plutonium stockpiled for 5,000 nukes. North Korea may give its hawkish government an excuse to build them. Thedailybeast.com The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) has overseen a "political risk insurance contract" for the Central Spent Fuel Storage Facility (CSFSF) at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. OPIC, the US government's development finance institution, is providing insurance to support the project trust's $250 million fixed-rate bond securities issuance in US capital markets. World-nuclear-news.org Armenia announced a refurbishment project for its one commercial nuclear reactor, which the deputy minister of Energy, Infrastructures and Natural Resources Hayk Harutyunyan said would increase the power of the reactor by 10 percent. Nuclearstreet.com Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF) said this week it had shipped lead test assemblies of its IronClad and ARMOR accident tolerant fuel solutions to Southern Nuclear Operating Company for plant installation early this year. Nuclearstreet.com