Cs-134/137 detected from 6 of 6 sea bass samples taken offshore from Ibaraki, Japan. fukushima-diary.com

Armenia’s prime minister has confirmed a 10-year life extension of the country’s only operating nuclear power plant and that negotiations are being held on the construction of new nuclear capacity. world-nuclear-news.org

 Unit 2 of the Fuqing nuclear power plant in China’s Fujian province has achieved a sustained chain reaction for the first time. The reactor is expected to enter commercial operation later this year. world-nuclear-news.org

China, which has 23 gigawatts of nuclear capacity under construction and “several facilities” in the planning stages, is expected to surpass South Korea and Russia in nuclear generating capacity by the end of 2015, placing it behind only the US, France and Japan, the US Energy Information Administration said. nucnet.org