Dam gates ‘shifted’ in Fukushima Unit 3 fuel pool. enenews.com

Major powers and Iran were closer to a preliminary accord on Tehran’s nuclear program as marathon talks ran into Wednesday, but were stuck over key details such as lifting U.N. sanctions and Iran’s future atomic research. uk.reuters.com

Posiva, the Finnish waste management company, said today it has started construction of a heavy plug for the demonstration repository tunnel at its final repository and waste encapsulation plant at Olkiluoto.  world-nuclear-news.org

Russia’s national operator for radioactive waste management has completed the design documents for an underground research laboratory to study the feasibility of final disposal of solid high-level radioactive waste and solid medium-level long-lived wastes in the Nizhnekansky granitoid rock massif in Zheleznogorsk. world-nuclear-news.org