Nuclear News Roundup Jun 08, 2019 Operations are continuing at a North Korean uranium enrichment site, said analysts for website 38 North, a project of Washington, D.C.-based think tank The Stimson Center. Upi.com Japan is calling for further efforts to cut its carbon emissions by promoting renewable energy while also pushing nuclear power despite its 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant disaster. Foxbusiness.com Uranium enrichment company Urenco has today held a ceremony to mark the official opening of its Tails Management Facility (TMF) at Capenhurst in the UK. The TMF will treat depleted uranium tails, a by-product of the enrichment process, by converting them from uranium hexafluoride into more chemically stable uranium oxide. World-nuclear-news.org Rosatom operating division Rosenergoatom said Tuesday that Novovoronezh-II Unit 2 has been brought up to 50 percent power as the first of four pre-commissioning testing levels known as pilot operations. Nuclearstreet.com