Food ingredients produced in Fukushima Prefecture accounted for 27.3% of the total used in local school lunches in fiscal 2015, up 5.4 percentage points from the previous year, according to data compiled by the prefectural education board fukishimaminponews.com

NuScale Power’s small modular reactor (SMR) has the capability of using mixed uranium-plutonium oxide (MOX) fuel in addition to conventional light water reactor fuel, a study by the UK’s National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) has confirmed.. world-nuclear-news.org

Excavation work has started at the construction site of the planned Hanhikivi 1 nuclear power plant in Pyhäjoki, Finland. A ceremony was held to mark the start of work to dig the foundation pit on 19 January. world-nuclear-news.org

 The United States Department of Energy is trying to change the rules on nuclear waste disposal – for the better. forbes.com