Crude oil prices have been rising for months and could climb higher now that the United States is pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal. NPR.org

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has completed a multi-year series of major construction works to protect the Sequoyah and Watts Bar nuclear plants from the most extreme of weather events. The final project, a new seven-foot (2.1 metre) high concrete flood wall at Fort Loudoun Dam, would hold back the waters of the Tennessee River in the event of an extreme flood. World-nuclear-news.org

The British government has informed Hitachi Ltd that it would guarantee the loans required to build two new reactors at the Wylfa Newydd site in Wales, Japanese media are reporting. No official announcement has been made on the financial arrangement by the government or Hitachi. Nuclearstreet.com

Unit 4 at the Ohi nuclear power plant in central Japan will be reactivated Wednesday with expectations that the reactor will return to commercial operations in early June, Kansai Electric Power said on Tuesday. Nuclearstreet.com