New York is poised to decide whether customers should spend about $500 million a year to save its money-losing nuclear reactors. bloomberg.com

A pledge by Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen to end nuclear power generation by 2025 is looking increasingly problematical as questions mount about how the industrialized island will replace the 12% of electricity supplied by the country’s three nuclear plants. asia.nikkei.com

More than half of Britons would be willing to launch nuclear weapons if they were Prime Minister – with two thirds of those asked supporting Theresa May’s claim that she would do so, according to a recent survey. independent.co.uk

The Welsh Government has demanded clarification that a delay to a new nuclear power station in Somerset will not hit plans for the new Wylfa Newydd plant on Anglesey. bbc.com