The two 160-metre-high cooling towers of the shut down Gundremmingen nuclear power plant in Germany have been demolished as part of the plant's decommissioning, utility RWE announced.
 

Sellafield Ltd has awarded contracts worth a total of GBP2.9 billion (USD3.8 billion) to a partnership comprising Morgan Sindall Infrastructure, Costain Limited, and HOCHTIEF (UK) Construction Ltd for non-nuclear infrastructure works at the Sellafield site in Cumbria, northwest England.
 

Japanese utility Chubu Electric Power Company announced it has removed the upper lid of the pressure vessel of unit 1 at its Hamaoka nuclear power plant as it begins to dismantle the reactor. Dismantling of the reactor of unit 2 at the plant began earlier this year.
 

Infrastructure solutions company Costain has been awarded a GBP70 million (USD94 million) contract to halve the height of the two reactor buildings at the shut-down Trawsfynydd Magnox nuclear power plant in Gwynedd, North Wales, UK.
 

Remote handling technologies have been used to remove 66 sample tiles and other components from the Joint European Torus. They are now being studied to help inform the future decommissioning plan of the record-setting fusion facility.
 

Unit 1 of the Tihange nuclear power plant has been taken offline for the final time after 50 years of operation and disconnected from the grid. Its closure is in line with Belgium's nuclear phase-out policy, under which three other reactors have already been shut down.
 

British nuclear services company Cavendish Nuclear, together with its delivery partner USA-based engineering company Amentum, has been awarded the next phase of work by the Japan Atomic Energy Agency to support the decommissioning of the Monju Prototype Fast Reactor in Fukui Prefecture, Japan.
 

Japanese utility Tokyo Electric Power Company and the UK's Sellafield Ltd have extended their agreement to cooperate in the field of nuclear decommissioning by up to another 10 years.
 

Germany's Nukem Technologies Engineering Services GmbH is to provide consulting services on decommissioning and radioactive waste management to Kazakhstan under a memorandum of understanding signed with the Kazakh Atomic Energy Agency.