Key Assembly Democrats are pushing a measure to block a multi-billion-dollar bailout for three upstate nuclear power plants as part of a bid to force state regulators to testify at a hearing on the program. lohud.com

Russia has for months been testing a giant nuclear weapons delivery system that can carry 10 heavyweight warheads—enough power to wipe out Texas or France. But the RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile known in Russia as “Satan 2” has been delayed yet again, suggesting Moscow is having a harder time than expected updating its nuclear arsenal.  newsweek.com

If a nuclear accident occurred at the Davis-Besse plant in Ottawa County, Ohio emergency responders, law enforcement and local officials from Sandusky County would need to be prepared to take care of evacuees. thenews-messenger.com

Weapons physicist Greg Sprigg has spent five years declassifying, digitizing and reanalyzing film of the U.S.’s 210 open air nuclear detonations smithsonianmag.com