The company that operates upstate New York’s three nuclear power plants is planning a $20 million push over the next decade to focus on clean energy and environmental technology. spectrumlocalnews.com

The first containers of used nuclear fuel assemblies removed from the Lepse floating technical base at the Nerpa shipyard have been transported to Murmansk, Russia. The fuel is being removed under a programme managed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and will be sent to Mayak for reprocessing. World-nuclear-news.org

The Australian Workers Union (AWU) has told a federal government roundtable event that it supports the lifting of the country’s ban on nuclear energy. The union is nation’s oldest and largest ‘blue-collar’ trade union, having more than 100,000 members. World-nuclear-news.org

The UK’s National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) announced today that Rawwater Engineering Company, whose specialist alloy seals for the oil and gas sector are being adapted to support Sellafield decommissioning challenges, has signed a contract that will take the company into the Japanese nuclear sector. World-nuclear-news.org