Amid preparations to restart nuclear reactors shut down following the 2011 Fukushima meltdown, the Japanese government plans to set a new standard for the permissible upper limit of radiation exposure for those in charge of anti-disaster operations. sputniknews.com US Secretary of State John Kerry has said that America and other major powers are not in a rush to reach a nuclear agreement with Iran. bbc.news Kazakh uranium mining company KazAtomProm has signed a contract with India's Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) to supply 5000 tonnes of uranium over the next four years. world-nuclear-news.org A critical funding mechanism for the U.S. nuclear power sector’s export business, the U.S. Export-Import Bank, now has one foot in the grave and could be sacrificed in the name of conservative idealism. nuclearstreet.com