The Trump administration has shelved a plan to invoke wartime emergency powers to justify multibillion-dollar bailouts for economically struggling coal and nuclear plants — at least for the time being.  Greentechmedia.com

More than 60,000 tons of highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel is stored on the shores of four of the five Great Lakes — in some cases, mere yards from the waterline — in still-growing stockpiles. Freep.com

Duke Energy is offering an unidentified number of employees a voluntary severance package in an effort to shore up its staffing levels. Wect.com

The Palisades nuclear power plant in southwestern Michigan is shut down for repairs ahead of a planned refueling outage. Usnews.com