US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is ready to allow international inspectors into a key nuclear testing site, signaling a step forward in Pyongyang’s commitment to denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula. Cnn.com

Seventy years of British nuclear history lie behind these concrete, stone and aluminium walls. Since opening in February 2017, Nucleus, the UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s (NDA) Nuclear and Caithness Archive, near Wick, Scotland, has been gathering thousands of records, images and plans about the UK’s civil nuclear industry. More documents are being transferred from 17 archives across the UK, as the NDA plans to house them all in this single purpose-built location. Wired.co.uk

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Australia’s Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act could be amended to ensure that uranium mining is treated equitably with other commodities, reducing costs and delays without lessening environmental protection, a new report prepared for the Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) has found. World-nuclear-news.org

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison says he has “no issue” with nuclear power except it doesn’t stack up as an investment compared to Hydro Tasmania’s “Battery of the nation” project. Aft.com