Japanese footballers to train for the 2020 Tokyo Games near the exclusionary zone surrounding the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant. sputniknews.com

Fukushima Gov. Masao Uchibori expressed regret Monday over the cancellation of an event that the Foreign Ministry had planned to hold in Seoul over the weekend to promote recovery in Tohoku after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. japantimes.co.jp

US uranium production in the fourth quarter of 2015 was at its lowest level since 2002 and total 2015 production was the lowest since 2005, according to figures released by the US Energy Information Administration . world-nuclear-news.org

Westinghouse Electric has delivered the first batch of “upgraded” nuclear fuel assemblies to the Zaporozhe nuclear power plant in Ukraine, with fuel loading at unit 5 planned for May, pending regulatory approval. world-nuclear-news.org