One person was killed and another injured today by a landslide within an underground laboratory operated by French waste management agency Andra. The laboratory, near Bure in the Meuse/Haute Marne area, is assessing the site for its suitability to house a national radioactive waste repository. world-nuclear-news.org

Nuclear engineering and construction firm AREVA said that it completed service work on 43 planned power plant outages in the United States in 2015 without an hour of lost time due to worker injury. nuclearstreet.com

The UK’s first new nuclear power plants for decades face fresh delays amid reports that French energy giant EDF is unsure it can finance the £18bn project. theguardian.com

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavorv on Tuesday reacted negatively to South Korea’s proposal to hold five-party nuclear talks excluding North Korea, saying it’s “not a good idea” to try to isolate Pyongyang. english.yonhapnews.co.kr