America has just entered a nuclear weapons crisis. For the first time in history, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has just published a scientific paper, by highly qualified nuclear weapons experts, saying that we can no longer have confidence that our nuclear weapons will perform as required. See “Issues in Science and Technology,” winter issue. Washingtontimes.com

A degraded electric cable led to a manual scram, or shutdown, Friday of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Plymouth. According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), control-room operators shut down the reactor at 11:03 p.m. when a circulating-water pump lost power. Plymouth.wickedlocal.com

Unit 1 at Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd’s (NPCIL) Kakrapar plant has restarted after the completion of work to replace all of the pressurised heavy water reactor’s (PHWR) coolant channel and feeder tubes. World-nuclear-news.org

Bulgarian state energy company NEK has pushed back the formal start of the investor selection procedure for the two-unit Belene nuclear power station project because of delays in providing documentation to the Official Journal of the European Union, local media reported. Nucnet.org