SCANA and Santee Cooper agreed in 2008 to move forward with construction on two new nuclear reactors without a final design, with an estimated price tag of more than $10 billion, which would eventually nearly double. Aikenstandard.com A new report says mistakes and mismanagement are to blame for the exposure of workers to radioactive particles at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state. Abcnews.go.com The US Senate has passed a bill that could accelerate the development of advanced nuclear reactors, providing a boost to technologies that promise to make nuclear power cheaper, safer, and easier to build. Technologyreview.com Fukushima nuclear disaster: did the evacuation raise the death toll? Ft.com