A professor from Japan’s Fukushima University Institute of Environmental Radioactivity (Michio Aoyama) told Kyodo in April that the West Coast of North America will be hit with around 800 terabecquerels of Cesium- 137 by 2016. washtingtonblog.com

The removal of spent uranium fuel rods from the Fukushima power plant will begin three years later compared to the originally planned date, the Japanese government said in a roadmap published on Friday. sputniknews.com

Could the Islamic State build a nuclear weapon? catholic.org

A state-based study group in Virginia, the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy, says that nuclear power is clean and safe and could help turn the state’s energy deficit into an energy surplus. nuclearstreet.com