Nuclear News Roundup Nov 14, 2017

Nuclear News Roundup Nov 14, 2017

South Jersey nuclear reactor, shut down for a month for refueling and maintenance, is back online, officials said. The Salem 1 reactor began sending electricity out over the regional power grid at 4:33 p.m. Sunday, according to Joe Delmar, spokesman for the plant's operator, PSEG Nuclear. Nj.com

Pohjolan Voima Oy (PVO), the largest shareholder in Finland's long-delayed Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor, could make additional compensation claims against suppliers Areva and Siemens following a recent setback, PVO said on Tuesday. Nasdaq.com

A retired Air Force general told the Senate on Tuesday that an order from President Donald Trump or any of his successors to launch nuclear weapons can be refused by the top officer at U.S. Strategic Command if that order is determined to be illegal. Abcnews.go.com

Democracy Now! was there when activists and Democratic lawmakers at the U.N. climate summit in Bonn, Germany, staged a full-fledged revolt Monday when the Trump administration made its official debut at this year’s conference with a forum pushing coal, gas and nuclear power. The presentation was entitled “The Role of Cleaner and More Efficient Fossil Fuels and Nuclear Power in Climate Mitigation.” The panel was the only official appearance by the U.S. delegation during this year’s U.N. climate summit. Of the four corporate representatives pushing nuclear, gas and coal, Lenka Kollar of NuScale Power and Amos Hochstein of Tellurian told Amy Goodman that they disagreed with Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out of the climate agreement. Demopcracynow.com