North Korean leader Kim Jong Un used his New Year’s Day address to warn the U.S. not to test him while striking a softer tone with South Korea, including the possibility of sending a delegation to next month’s Winter Olympics. Nbcnews.com

One of the reactors at the Grundremmingen plant in Bavaria will be switched off as part of Germany’s plan to scale back nuclear power. The power station was the site of Germany’s first fatal nuclear power plant accident. Dw.com

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un held out a rare olive branch to the country’s southern neighbor Monday, offering talks over sending a delegation to the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang next month. Cnn.com

SCANA Corp. said Thursday that its subsidiary South Carolina Electric & Gas Company, had taken the formal step of withdrawing from the V.C. Summer nuclear plant expansion project — comprising of Units 2 and 3 at the plant — by filing a formal request with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to withdraw the combined operating licenses (COLs) for two half-completed reactors. Nuclearstreet.com