Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) announced Nov. 2 that nuclear fission may have occurred in the No. 2 reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. ajw.asahi.com

Radiologists at  Iwaki Kyoritsu General Hospital found something unusual in March of 2011. Black spots began appearing on X-rays taken at the facility. Particle fallout from the melted reactors at Fukushima Daiichi found its way into the imaging cassettes used for computed radiography images. fukuleaks.org

A ceremony was held on 28 August to mark the official opening of South Korea’s underground low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste (LLW/ILW) disposal facility at Gyeongju in North Gyeongsang province. world-nuclear-news.org

UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has decided to help African nations with the development of nuclear energy for electricity generation. africanreview.com