Radiation News Roundup Oct 16, 2015

A hatch weighing some 2.6 tons has been removed from the used fuel pool of unit 3 at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan. The hatch was one of the largest remaining pieces of rubble in the pool. world-nuclear-news.org

A ship carrying 25 tons of nuclear waste has departed from France bound for Australia, despite environmentalists sounding the alarm. The critics say the 'dustbin ship' is not fit to carry hazardous cargo. rt.com

Obama, South Korean President Agree North Korea Can’t Have Nuclear Weapon. wsj.com

Sweden's Ringhals 2 is to be decommissioned in 2019 and Ringhals 1 in 2020, majority owner Vattenfall announced yesterday following an extraordinary general meeting of plant operator Ringhals AB. world-nuclear-news.org