As part of the ongoing effort to clean up Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, Toshiba Inc. has co-developed a scorpion-like robot that officials hope can help determine the condition of melted fuel in the plant’s Unit 2 reactor. sputniknews.com

Japanese government  experts say that Fukushima radiation has affected telescopes used to detect space weather. enenews.com

Russia expects to increase its share of the global market in products for the front-end of the nuclear fuel cycle by 10% in the next 15 years, thanks to the integrated nature of Rosatom’s subsidiaries, according to the head of Techsnabexport (Tenex). world-nuclear-news.org

Croatian company Migrit Energija has confirmed that it plans to take a stake in the Hanhikivi nuclear power plant project in Finland. world-nuclear-news.org