India’s Indira Ghandi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) has awarded Hindustan Construction Company (HCC) a contract worth INR 7.64 billion ($120 million) to construct a fast reactor fuel cycle facility at Kalpakkam. World-nuclear-news.org

In an effort to keep the Nuclear Waste Fund intact, the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) this week filed a legal brief in the U.S. 5^thCircuit Court of Appeals to block Texas from being awarded restitution and disgorgement from the Nuclear Waste Fund based on the government’s long delays in setting up a national repository for spent nuclear fuel. Nuclearstreet.com

Explosive experts are due to detonate a large Nazi bomb found close to the site where builders are constructing a NUCLEAR POWER STATION. The 500lb device was discovered in the British Channel 2.5 nautical miles from the site of the controversial Hinkley Point C nuclear power station. Devonlive.com

ONE of the region’s MPs is backing the nuclear police over a pension dispute. Hartlepool MP Mike Hill said members of the Civil Nuclear Constabulary should be able to retire on full pension aged 60 in line with the rest of the policing service and not be expected to work until the age of 68. Thenorthernecho.co.uk