A settlement approved by Florida regulators Thursday has established how Duke Energy will spread the costs of the failed Crystal River steam generator replacement and an abandoned project to build new reactors in Levy County. nuclearstreet.com Southern California Edison (SCE) has formally started arbitration action with the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) against Mitsubishi, which it claims supplied defective steam generators for its now-shut San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS). world-nuclear-news.org Have nuclear talks been more successful for Iran than the West? cnn.com The United States and South Korea signed a new pact to deter North Korea's potential use of nuclear arms and other weapons of mass destruction amid growing threats from Pyongyang, their defense chiefs said on Wednesday. worldnews.nbcnews.com