Japanese officials claim a 6,000% cancer rate increase in Fukushima children’s thyroids. enenews.com

Efforts to restart Japan’s nuclear power plants suffered a setback and a victory this week, as a district court upheld an injunction preventing one restart and the Nuclear Regulatory Agency approved the restart of another reactor. nuclearstreet.com

North Korea said Wednesday that it has the ability to miniaturize nuclear weapons, a key step toward building nuclear missiles. edition.cnn.com

The share of nuclear power in the Czech Republic’s electricity generation mix is expected to rise from about 35% currently to between 46% and 58% by 2040. The target is part of the pro-nuclear elements of a long-term energy strategy – ASEK, according to its Czech acronym – which the country’s trade and industry ministry published yesterday. world-nuclear-news.org