Nuclear News Roundup May 02, 2018 The leaders of North and South Korea have agreed to work to rid the peninsula of nuclear weapons, after holding a historic summit. The announcement was made by the North's Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in of South Korea after talks at the border. Bbc.com A statement of intent to strengthen cooperation on fast neutron sodium-cooled reactors has been signed between the US Department of Energy (DOE) and the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA). The partners have also a statement of intent to begin cooperation in the field of artificial intelligence. World-nuclear-news.org A U.S. Department of Energy spokesman said that not one, but four the 55-gallon drums of radioactive waste had been found ruptured or leaking in early April at a storage facility on the 890-square mile property of the Idaho National Laboratory. Nuclearstreet.com Denmark's Molten Salt Reactor developer Seaborg Technologies announced, via its Facebook page, that it had received an investment valued at “several millions” of Danish kroner from a Silicon Valley investment firm called PreSeed Ventures. Nuclearstreet.com
