Donald Trump has directed the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, to delay a planned trip to North Korea, the president tweeted on Friday, “because I feel we are not making sufficient progress with respect to the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula”. Theguardian.com

Unit 2 of the Sanmen nuclear power plant in China’s Zhejiang province has been connected to the electricity grid and has begun supplying power. In late-June, Sanmen 1 became the world’s first AP1000 to achieve grid connection and power generation. World-nuclear-news.org

Germany’s federal radioactive waste company, BGE, has signed an agreement with the country’s geoscientific authority, BGR, to cooperate on site selection investigations for a high-level waste repository, as well as on the management of existing waste repositories. World-nuclear-news.org

Local media near Bradwell, site of the future Bradwell B Nuclear Power Plant of Chinese design, are reporting that the region is already feeling associated economic benefits through work involving preliminary site study work concerning joint French and Chinese project. Nuclearstreet.com