A Japanese court on Thursday acquitted three former Tokyo Electric Power Co. executives on charges of professional negligence in connection to the 2011 Fukushima meltdown, ending the only criminal trial to come from the nuclear power plant disaster. Upi.com

Iran sought to obtain illicit nuclear weapons technology as recently as 2018, according to new disclosures by German intelligence that reveal how Tehran tapped black weapons markets without the knowledge of international nuclear inspectors tasked with performing oversight on the Islamic Republic’s weapons sites as part of the landmark nuclear agreement. Freebeacon.com

Located near Ignalina, Lithuania, the Ignalina nuclear power plant originally featured two 4,800MW units. The first power plant unit was commissioned in 1983 and the second unit in 1987. The capacity of each unit was reduced to 4,200MW after the nuclear accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine in April 1986. The plant is currently undergoing decommissioning that is controlled by the Lithuanian Ministry of Economy. Power-technology.com

The Russian nuclear energy corporation Rosatom and Dominican Republic’s Energy and Mines Ministry on Tuesday signed the first memorandum on bilateral cooperation in the field of nuclear energy. Dominicantoday.com