A plan to use costly treated wastewater to fix Florida Power & Light’s nuclear cooling canals could wind up polluting Biscayne Bay, environmentalists warned this week. Miamiherald.com

Public utility JEA is on the hook for hundreds of millions more than originally planned under a nuclear power contract, according to an annual financial disclosure CEO Paul McElroy presented to City Council on Thursday. The municipal utility agreed in 2008 to purchase power from a planned dual reactor power plant in Waynesboro, Georgia. McElroy was the company’s chief financial officer at the time. News.wjct.org

The Southwest Research Institute has signed a pair of deals with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission that continues research work on nuclear processes and waste disposal. The first deal, worth $52 million and announced Wednesday, continues the San Antonio research and development group’s work as the operator of the Center for Nuclear Waste Regulatory Analyses. Expressnews.com

The recent assertion by Japan’s top diplomat that North Korea is preparing for a new nuclear weapons test has drawn a rebuttal from a U.S.-based monitoring website maintaining that such activity is not confirmed by satellite imagery. Asia.nikkei.com