Full planning permission will still be sought for the Wylfa Newydd nuclear project, despite the fact it has been put on hold. This would allow “a timely restart” to work on the £13bn plant on Anglesey in the future, the company behind it said. Bbc.com

CHINA is coming under mounting pressure to abandon its long-standing “no first use” nuclear weapons policy as it engages in an arms race with the United States, analysts have warned. Express.co.uk

 A railway shipment of about 6.4 tonnes of used nuclear fuel from the Netherlands has arrived at Orano’s railway terminal in Valognes, northern France, to be treated at the company’s La Hague facility before recycling. Nucnet.org

State-run Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) has ruled out restarting the Lungmen nuclear power station project, where work was halted following the March 2011 Fukushima-Daiichi accident in Japan. Nucnet.org