FirstEnergy Solutions has submitted a regulatory filing that may be the first official step in the unwanted deactivation of its three nuclear power plants over two years. Power-eng.com

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has completed its final environmental assessment of the decommissioning plan for Centrus Energy Corporation’s Lead Centrifuge Facility (LCF), with a finding of No Significant Impact. World-nuclear-news.org

With local government approvals in hand, the Chugoku Electric Company in Japan has sent in its application to the Nuclear Regulation Authority for inspections that would allow the start of the Shimane Unit 3 reactor, putting it on track to be the first new reactor to start up in the county since the Fukushima Dai-ichi accident. Nuclearstreet.com

An investment fund designed to profit from the rising price of uranium has acquired a large shipment of uranium from Kazakhstan for $8.2m. Yellow Cake, which raised $200m in a successful float on the London Stock Exchange earlier this summer, said it has bought 350,000 lb of uranium from Kazakh supplier Kazatomprom and will store it with the rest of its holding at a Cameco facility in Ontario, Canada.  Nucnet.org