TEPCO announced that the robot stuck in the Fukushima containment vessel will not be recovered. fukuleaks.org

Nuclear power benefitted the Japanese economy by some ¥33 trillion over the years, said Masakazu Toyoda of the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan (IEEJ), and the country risks wasting this in its slow progress to restart its reactors. world-nuclear-news.org

Iranian physicists excited at prospects for a new physics lab and greater collaboration with the rest of the world. nature.com

A global evangelical group joined leaders from the Roman Catholic Church and other religious denominations in an event at the United Nations to declare that nuclear weapons are contrary to faith, morality and reason, and to call for a ban on their possession. christianpost.com