Nagoya University said Friday it has confirmed that a meltdown occurred in the No. 2 reactor at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, after finding a reduction in the amount of nuclear fuel in the reactor in the wake of the massive 2011 earthquake and tsunami. english.kyodonews.jp

True realists know that nuclear weapons don’t deter the most likely threats to American security such as political extremism, terrorism, humanitarian disasters, environmental degradation or global financial instability. wsj.com

Diane Turco with the Cape Downwinders is expressing her concern with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) after what she says is a ‘fatally flawed assessment’ of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth. capecod.com

Kyushu Electric Power Company has received permission from Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) for construction work to upgrade the basic design of its Sendai-1 and Sendai-2 reactors to meet higher standards set since the Fukushima-Daiichi accident, nucnet.org