Nuclear News Roundup Aug 27, 2019 A group is looking to collect signatures statewide to ask voters to overturn the law that bails out nuclear power plants. But a new group has formed to argue in favor of the bailout. Ohio Public Radio's Andy Chow reports. Wcbe.com Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said on Monday it may start to decommission at least one nuclear reactor at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa power plant, the world's biggest nuclear plant by capacity, within five years of restarting two of the reactors at the site. Japantoday.com Ankara is closely monitoring radiation in the country’s Black Sea region after reports of a fatal nuclear blast in Russia’s far northern Arkhangelsk region earlier this month, Turkish outlet HaberTürk reported. Ahvalnews.com On Monday, Democratic candidate for president Andrew Yang revealed his climate plan. Like the plans of fellow nominees Sen. Bernie Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the plan is ambitious. But Yang's sticks out from the others because he openly endorses a type of nuclear power known as thorium. Popularmechanics.com
