South Korea and the United States are looking for a way to guarantee “a bright future” for North Korea if its leader Kim Jong Un will give up his nuclear weapons program, the national security adviser in Seoul said Wednesday, as preparations for next week’s inter-Korean summit gather pace. Washingtonpost.com

Officials at the Los Alamos National Laboratory ordered a partial evacuation of a nuclear research building after a report of a bulging hazardous waste drum. Usnews.com

Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) has invited small modular reactor project proponents to evaluate the construction and operation of a demonstration SMR project at a site it manages. CNL aims to have a new SMR constructed on its Chalk River site by 2026.  World-nuclear-news.org

Ukrainian nuclear power plant operator Energoatom expects the country’s Cabinet of Ministers to approve soon tender documents required to attract a private partner to the ‘energy bridge’ project. The project aims to make the export of electricity to the European Union possible by disconnecting unit 2 of the Khmelnitsky nuclear power plant from the Ukrainian national grid, and to attract funding required to complete units 3 and 4 at the plant. World-nuclear-news.org