Austrian and Moldovan authorities have broken up an organized crime ring suspected of smuggling nuclear materials, the European police agency said Friday. Stripes.com

A bipartisan group of U.S. House members from Michigan wrote Friday to Canada’s leader, expressing their “strong opposition” to that country’s possible plans to locate a nuclear waste repository near the Great Lakes. Detroitnews.com

Jet engines, increasingly criticized for contributing to greenhouse gases, may turn to an unexpected technology to help them cut emissions: nuclear power. Karmaimpact.com

Siberian Chemical Combine (SCC) has awarded a RUB26.3 billion (USD412 million) contract to Titan-2 for the construction and installation works for the BREST-OD-300 lead-cooled fast neutron reactor facility at its site in Seversk, Russia. Siberian Chemical Plant is a subsidiary of TVEL, the nuclear fuel manufacturing subsidiary of Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom. World-nuclear-news.org