Average UK nuclear power output was at its lowest Tuesday since late 2014, with seven of the country's 16 nuclear plants on planned outages, data from S&P Global Platts Analytics showed. As many other countries are working on building up their nuclear industries, in the United States nuclear simply can’t compete with cheap natural gas and other renewables growing more affordable all the time in the nation’s wholesale electricity markets. Oilprices.com China is likely developing a long-range bomber capable of delivering nuclear weapons and a space-based early warning system it could use to more quickly respond to an attack, according to a new report from the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency. Bloomberg.com Small modular reactor (SMR) developer NuScale, majority owned by Fluor Corporation, said Tuesday it had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC) to pave the way for a feasibility study to look into SMR deployment in the country. Nuclearstreet.com
