A nuclear fuel reprocessing firm in northern Japan says some of its monitoring devices of high level radioactive materials have stopped working. It says the failure poses no threat to the environment. nhk.or.jp

TEPCO announced that they have completed the concreting of the unit 3 seawater piping trench system. Two vertical shafts are being filled currently to complete the last of this project. fukuleaks.org

Having spent nuclear fuel remain in Iran for years could provide plenty of time to separate some of the plutonium out of it.  lipolitics.com

The engineering subsidiary of Russia’s Rosatom has signed a general framework agreement with Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) for construction of unit 1 of the planned Ninh Thuan nuclear power plant. The country’s electricity use is set to triple in 15 years. world-nuclear-news.org