World:
¶ With national elections coming in September, Germany plans to cut consumer electricity prices by sharing the cost of the switch to renewable energy more evenly with companies. [Reuters AlertNet]
¶ A panel of experts at the Nuclear Regulation Authority endorsed a draft report saying a geological fault line running directly under a reactor building at the Tsuruga nuclear plant is probably still active. This may make a restart of the reactor impossible. [Asahi Shimbun]
¶ New safety guidelines for tsunami protection from the Japanese Nuclear Regulation Authority could delay restarts of a number of reactors. [Asahi Shimbun]
US:
¶ The US Defense Department’s renewable energy capacity will quadruple by 2025, according to Pike Research. [Environmental Expert]
¶ A study by Oak Ridge National Laboratory says the US will not be able to recycle nuclear waste for at least another 20 years. This means that the waste will have to be buried. [Forbes]
¶ The Fort Calhoun nuclear plant has more concerns being raised, more NRC inspections, and no end in sight for its outage, which has continued for nearly two years. [Kansas Watchdog]
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