Another unplanned outage at Mississippi’s Grand Gulf nuclear power plant outside Port Gibson is adding to regulators’ concerns over reliability problems at the largest single-unit nuclear power plant in the United States. Clarionledger.com

Washington has threatened to pull out of the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), alleging that the new Russian missile, the Novator 9M729 (called SSC-8 by NATO), violates the pact, which bans either side from stationing short and intermediate-range, land-based missiles in Europe. Reuters.com

Sources within Copeland council, the nuclear industry and Government have confirmed that the Department for Business, Energy and Nuclear Strategy will make a statement at around 2.30pm today. Newsandstar.com

University of Birmingham experts are partnering with Chinese nuclear regulators in helping develop cleaner, safer and more sustainable civil atomic energy. Birmingham.ac.uk