Nuclear News Roundup Aug 30, 2016 Southeast Asia has been declared free of highly-enriched uranium (HEU) following the completion of a collaborative project to downblend Indonesia's stock of HEU to low-enriched uranium (LEU). world-nuclear-news.org Horizon Chief Executive Officer Duncan Hawthorne said that the subsidiary of the Japanese firm Hitachi is concerned that $1.57 billion already invested in the proposed Wylfa Newydd nuclear power plant might never see any returns, given the British government's ambivalence over the Hinkley Point C project. nuclearstreet.com The Philippines is looking into operating the country's only nuclear power plant, built four decades ago at more than $2 billion but never used, to ensure the long-term supply of clean and cheap electricity, its energy minister said. reuters.com India and the US on Tuesday agreed to move forward on building six nuclear reactors and discussed ways to enhance cooperation in the field of atomic power and space. indianexpress.com
