Kyushu Electric Power Co. is planning to restart the No. 1 reactor at its Sendai nuclear plant in Kagoshima Prefecture as early as Tuesday, sources said Friday. japantimes.com.co.jp Tokyo Electric, the operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, has released a document during a lawsuit brought by over 40 shareholders which reveals the utilities acknowledgment that tsunami defenses at the plant were not adequate. enformable.com Pope Francis called for a global ban on nuclear weapons Sunday as Japan marked the 70th anniversary of the U.S. dropping an atomic bomb on Nagasaki days before the end of World War Two. voanews.com The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is to develop new emergency preparedness (EP) regulations for small modular reactors (SMRs) and other new technologies such as non-light-water reactors (LWRs) and medical isotope production facilities. world-nuclear-news.org
