North Korea’s recent nuclear test appears to have triggered several landslides, according to what are believed to be the first satellite images of the aftermath. Bbc.com

Irradiation tests on a mixture of lithium and thorium fluoride salts are under way at the High Flux Reactor at Petten in the Netherlands. The results will yield new data on the safe operation of molten salt reactors (MSRs). World-nuclear-news.org

The world’s oldest nuclear waste store – the Pile Fuel Cladding Silo at Sellafield, England – has been cut open for the first time, Sellafield Ltd and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority announced yesterday. Built in the 1950s when the site’s purpose was to make material for nuclear weapons, the silo is a locked vault that was “never designed to be opened”, they said. World-nuclear-news.org

Lightbridge Corporation and AREVA NP in North America said Wednesday they had signed a binding Heads of Terms Agreement for a joint venture  that sets out conditions for manufacturing and commercializing Lightbridge’s advanced metallic fuel technology.  Nuclearstreet.com