Nuclear News Roundup Sep 17, 2018 Jacksonville’s electric utility and City Hall filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to void a controversial decade-old agreement obligating local ratepayers to help build and eventually buy power from two planned nuclear reactors in Georgia, a significant escalation in a fight over the future of the only active nuclear power project in the United States. Jacksonville.com Cleanup work has resumed at an eastern Idaho nuclear site months after the rupture of several barrels containing radioactive sludge. Sfchronicle.com A small government safety organization tasked with protecting the workers who construct America’s nuclear arsenal and with preventing radioactive disasters in the communities where they live is under new siege in Washington. Scientificamerican.com The Bolivian Republic of Venezuela (Venezuela) and the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency have signed a framework accord that covers technical cooperation for the pursuit of nuclear power projects for the years 2018 and 2025. Nuclearstreet.com
