Links for March 12, 2013

Two U. S. Navy veterans join federal lawsuit against the Tokyo Electric Power Company over nuclear power plant meltdown at Fukushima. dailymail.co.uk

Forests covering 70 percent of Japanese prefecture were found to have traces of radioactive fallout two years after nuclear disaster at Fukushima. aljazeera.com

A month after North Korea's nuclear test, a monitoring agency said on Tuesday it was highly unlikely to find any "smoking gun" radioactive traces from the blast, potentially leaving important questions about the device unresolved. reuters.com

Safety-related concrete has been poured for the basemat of the first of two new AP1000 reactor units at the VC Summer plant in South Carolina. world-nuclear-news.org