Ground work has begun for the construction of a final repository for used nuclear fuel in Forsmark, in Östhammar municipality, radioactive waste management company Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB announced.

The State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine has given approval for the commissioning of the Solid Waste Retrieval Facility and Solid Waste Processing Plant at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant site.

Egypt's Nuclear Power Plants Authority has been given the go ahead by the Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Authority to establish a storage facility for used nuclear fuel at the El Dabaa nuclear power plant site.

Work to segment and package the steel reactor pressure vessel head of the Brunsbüttel nuclear power plant in Germany has been completed in less than two months, Vattenfall announced. The metal will now be recycled.

A groundbreaking ceremony has been held to mark the long-delayed start of construction of an outdoor dry storage facility for used nuclear fuel at Taiwan's shut down Kuosheng nuclear power plant.

Different countries planning the safe, permanent disposal of nuclear waste in geological repositories are sharing experiences and learning from each other, as Neil Hyatt, chief scientific advisor to the UK's Nuclear Waste Services explains.

The US Trade and Development Agency has signed two grant agreements to support Bulgaria's nuclear ambitions: one will support a cost-shared feasibility study with US company Deep Isolation to support the safe underground disposal of used fuel from Bulgaria's nuclear power plants, while the other will support a prefeasibility study for the deployment of small modular reactor technology.

The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute says it has developed a new concept for the world's first nuclide separation device that employs robots and sensors.

The process of removing the used uranium-beryllium fuel from former nuclear submarine reactors at the Russian naval base Gremikha has concluded after more than a decade.

Finland's Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority has been given another one-year extension to complete its review of Posiva Oy's operating licence application for the world's first used nuclear fuel repository.

Backfilling has begun of the former salt mine in Gorleben, Lower Saxony - previously considered a possible site for geological disposal of Germany's high-level radioactive waste.

Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB can begin excavation works to extend the existing SFR final repository for low and intermediate-level waste at Forsmark following the approval of its safety report by Sweden's Radiation Safety Authority.