Japanese Cabinet ministers on Friday endorsed a new schedule for decommissioning the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that increases an emphasis on safety, while allowing for further delays in spent fuel removal of up to 40 months. nuclearstreet.com

Some 7,000 people living in Tochigi Prefecture sought compensation Monday worth about one hundred and fifty million dollars through an out-of-court settlement with TEPCO over the disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant. Japantimes.co.jp

Between its domestic uranium mining, uranium purchased on the international market, and uranium mined by Chinese-owned companies overseas, China could meet even the most ambitious target for nuclear expansion, thus avoiding the “troublesome and dangerous” path of reprocessing, research shows. nucnet.org

The Group of Seven industrial powers’ agreement to cut greenhouse gases by phasing out the use of fossil fuels by the end of the century is an “admirable initiative” that means all clean energy technologies, including nuclear, will have a role to play in the future energy mix, the nuclear industry has said. nucnet.org