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Completion of unit 4 of the Shin Kori nuclear power plant has been delayed by ten months, Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power (KHNP) has said. The APR1400 reactor is now expected to start up in September 2018. World-nuclear-news.org

South Carolina’s state-owned utility Santee Cooper announced recently that it would have to walk away from its 45 percent share of two nuclear reactors being built at the Summer nuclear plant in Fairfield County. The decision to abandon the Summer project was essentially a death knell for the unfinished reactors—SCANA Corp, the 55 percent owner, couldn’t complete the project on its own and Santee Cooper had tried selling its share to Duke Energy years before to no avail. Without generous government assistance, Santee Cooper stood to lose billions. Arstechnica.com

Workers at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan have unearthed what appeared to be an unexploded wartime bomb. Newsweek.com

Is San Francisco prepared for a nuclear attack? Ktvu.xom