Nuclear News Roundup Oct 14, 2017 Greenpeace activists broke through two security barriers and launched fireworks inside the grounds of a French nuclear plant on Thursday to highlight the vulnerability of the plants to attacks. Fortune.com S.C. Gov. Henry McMaster was a strong ally of SCANA in the months before the Cayce-based utility abandoned plans to build two nuclear reactors at a cost to its customers of $1.7 billion and rising. Thestate.com The Salem 1 nuclear reactor has been taken off-line for a refueling outage that will include $17 million in capital upgrades, officials say. Nj.com In his speech on the Iran nuclear agreement, known formally as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), President Trump made a number of factual assertions. The deal was negotiated by Iran, the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council (United States, Russia, United Kingdom, France and China), Germany and the European Union. Washingtonpost.com
