Japan’s leading business group has called for accelerated restarts of reactors, with the years spent offline to be added back onto their lifespans. The Japan Business Federation (Keidanren) called for clarity in energy policy beyond 2030 to support development of the power sector to reflect significant social change. world-nuclear-news.org

The world is running out of options for generating sustainable, safe, CO2-free, baseload electricity, but the one option that “ticks all the boxes” for the future is nuclear fusion, a paper published in the UK says. Nucnet.org

Uzbekistan has initiated the process to choose a site for its first nuclear power plant and aims to grant a site licence in September 2020, local officials have confirmed to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Uzbekistan is among about 30 countries that are considering, planning or actively working to include nuclear power into their energy mix. World-nuclear-news.org

EDF has agreed to sell its stake in Swiss nuclear utility Alpiq to the company’s other major shareholders, who intend to take it private. The price for EDF’s 25.04% share is CHF489 million (USD489.2 million). World-nuclear-news.org