Japan’s Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) said on Monday it may start to decommission at least one nuclear reactor at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa power plant, the world’s biggest nuclear plant by capacity, within five years of restarting two of the reactors at the site. Aljazeera.com

President Donald Trump on Monday dismissed as “ridiculous” a report that he proposed detonating nuclear bombs inside hurricanes to weaken the storms before they make landfall along U.S. shorelines.

 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang’s new climate plan places stock in private sector investment and nuclear power to meet its emissions-cutting goals. Thehill.com

Energoatom and Cameco have signed a memorandum of cooperation and understanding as part of the Ukrainian nuclear power plant operator’s strategy to diversify its nuclear fuel supply. The document was signed yesterday at the uranium producer’s headquarters in Saskatoon, Canada. World-nuclear-news.org