The Times Herald: Exelon seeking 20 more years
‘LIMERICK — Exelon Nuclear has made it official, announcing that it intends to file a request to extend the license on the Limerick Generating Station for another 20 years.’

The State: Safety issues revealed at nuclear facility
‘Contractors at the Savannah River Site — one of the country’s major nuclear-weapons complexes — repeatedly procured dangerous construction materials and components that failed to meet federal safety standards, according to a recently completed internal government probe.’

Vermont Business Magazine: Senate passes watered down Vermont Yankee bill
‘The state Senate yesterday passed a Vermont Yankee decommissioning bill that is a significantly watered down version of one that passed the House, but which still requires the current owners of the Vernon nuclear power plant to cover the cost of decommissioning the plant, whenever that might be. The House version requires that Entergy fully fund the decommissioning within 10 years if the plant closes in 2012.’

Newsday: Stimulus funds to aid dismantling of Brookhaven reactors
‘A 25-foot tall cube made of graphite at one of Brookhaven National Laboratory's closed research nuclear reactors is so radioactive that robot arms will be needed to take it apart.’

Helsinki Times: Majority of Finland's top three parties back nuclear power -MTV3 poll
‘Clear majorities of Finland's top three parties are in favour of building new nuclear power generating capacity, commercial broadcaster MTV3 quoted its poll as indicating on Sunday.’

NEI: Utilities signal preferred UK sites
‘The supporters of the eleven sites nominated for the next wave of new nuclear build in the UK may be more surprising than the sites themselves.’