Birds with mutations popping up all over in contaminated areas in Fukushima, Japan. enenews.com

A 55-year-old Japanese man is sacrificing himself to save Fukushima’s abandoned and radioactive animals. theplaidzebra.com

Belgium’s Electrabel announced today that it now expects its Doel 3 and Tihange 2 nuclear reactors to remain offline until 1 November as the process to potentially restart the units continues. The utility had previously expected the units to restart on 1 July. world-nuclear-news.org

Saving the U.S. nuclear power industry is the equivalent of saving hundreds of thousands of “solid, middle-class jobs,” an editorial written by the president of North America’s Building Trades Unions Sean McGarvey declared on Wednesday. nuclearstreet.com