Nuclear News Roundup Aug 05, 2019 Kashmir, nexus of conflict between nuclear antagonists India and Pakistan, faces crackdown, plunges into fear. Oregonlive.com Letter: NuScale nuclear power is too risky. Sltrib.com Russian President Vladimir Putin warned on Monday that Moscow would start developing short and intermediate-range land-based nuclear missiles if the United States started doing the same after the demise of a landmark arms control treaty. Reuters.com A contract has been signed between SSE Chernobyl NPP and construction company Ukrbudmontazh (UBM) for the creation of infrastructure for the early dismantling of the Shelter Object. This structure, widely known as the 'sarcophagus', was hastily constructed over the remains of the destroyed reactor of unit 4 in the weeks after the 1986 accident. World-nuclear-news.org
