Nuclear News Roundup Mar 08, 2017 Some 600 workers on the construction site of the new Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in Somerset are staging a mass sit-in. bbc.com The White House in a rare move criticized the Russian government and Vladimir Putin directly on Monday over its backing of the Syrian government’s military actions and the Russian president’s recent comments about his nuclear arsenal. Nydailynews.com A new study by a team of international researchers has for the first time “explicitly revealed” uranium and other radioactive materials in the surrounding environment of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors following the nuclear accident at the site in 2011. Cleantechnica.com South Korea is to send its national security chief to Pyongyang on Monday to discuss how to resume dialogue between the US and North Korea over its nuclear and weapons program. Telegraph.co.uk
