Hungary’s Paks nuclear power plant on Tuesday said it had lowered output of one of its four blocks due to an unspecified electrical malfunctioning, according to a statement posted on its web site. Af.reuters.com

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres mounted a thinly veiled attack on the Trump administration during his Aug. 9 peace ceremony address here to mark the 73rd anniversary of this city’s atomic bombing. Guterres, the first U.N. chief to attend the annual ceremony in Nagasaki, deftly sidestepped naming the United States, but there was no disguising that his speech was a scathing indictment of the Trump administration’s position on nuclear arms. Asahi.com

Unit 1 of the Sanmen nuclear power plant in China’s Zhejiang province has reached full power operation for the first time. The unit became the world’s first AP1000 to achieve grid connection and power generation. World-nuclear-news.org

A water leak at Oyster Creek Generating Station has forced the nation’s oldest nuclear power plant to operate at reduced capacity as it nears the final month before closure, federal officials said. Nj.com