Nuclear News Roundup Dec 29, 2017 Margaret Thatcher demanded the government draw up new contingency plans for a major nuclear incident after the response to the Chernobyl disaster was branded a “farce” and a “shambles”. Scotsman.com The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development proposed writing off $60bn of debt in return for Moscow giving up all of its nuclear weapons, according to newly released documents from the National Archives. Ft.com The biggest nuclear power plant in the world sits idle, as it has for nearly seven years. But that state is set to change, and not without public trepidation. Foxnews.com Russia's Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation and Uzbekistan have signed a nuclear-cooperation agreement that Rosatom says will pave the way for bilateral cooperation "in many aspects of civil nuclear energy." Rferl.org
