Framatome said yesterday it had received approval from the French Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) and EDF to resume the manufacture of forgings for the French nuclear fleet at its Le Creusot site. The approval reflects the improvement plan launched at the site at the beginning of 2016, which Framatome said is now 90% complete and will be fully closed out in the first half of this year. World-nuclear-news.org The current Hollywood movie "The Post," about the Washington Post's decision to publish the Pentagon Papers has made Daniel Ellsberg a household name again. While he is best-known for leaking the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times and Washington Post, at that time he also copied a lot of nuclear weapons planning documents, but they were lost. Now declassified, Daniel Ellsberg has written a book based on these documents, called "The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner." Mprnews.org Poland will decide later this year whether to build its first nuclear power plant to lower carbon emissions as part of a plan to reduce dependence on coal in the long term, the country’s Energy Minister Krzysztof Tchorzewski said on Monday. Reuters.com WAR between the US and North Korea could result in one of the largest ever surges in the price of gold, according to precious metals expert Jim Rickards. Express.co.uk
