Nuclear News Roundup Jun 02, 2017 Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) yesterday launched a request for expressions of interest in small modular reactors (SMRs). The nuclear science and technology organisation aims to demonstrate the commercial viability of SMR technology by 2026. World-nuclear-news.org Jordanian researchers will have access to the research reactors and ancillary facilities of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) following the recent signing of a partnership agreement with the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC). World-nuclear-news.org An excavator that slid into a nuclear waste pit in Idaho has been retrieved. The excavator slid into the pit May 11 after a partial collapse of the dig area at the U.S. Department of Energy's desert site, The Post Register reported. Usnews.com The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has authorized a combined construction and operations license for a third reactor at Dominion Virginia Power’s North Anna nuclear plant near Mineral Springs, VA. Utilitydive.com
