The UK's Office for Nuclear Regulation has granted the Hinkley Point B nuclear power plant in Somerset Fuel Free Verification status, confirming all nuclear fuel has been removed on time and on budget and allowing the plant to move into its decommissioning phase.
 

The last of the three operable units at the Bilibino Nuclear Power Plant in Chukotka, Russia, was permanently shut down on 30 December.
 

Russia's nuclear regulator Rostekhnadzor has issued a licence valid to 2055 for the decommissioning of Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant's first unit, which aims to set a template for such work on an RBMK-1000 reactor.
 

Vattenfall has received the second and final permit for the dismantling of the Brunsbüttel nuclear power plant from the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. The 771 MWe boiling water reactor was permanently shut down in 2007.
 

Norwegian Nuclear Decommissioning has invited the municipalities to express an interest in taking part in the process of finding a suitable location for storage facilities for radioactive waste.
 

The three operable units at the Bilibino Nuclear Power Plant in Chukotka, Russia, are all to be permanently shut down by the end of the year.
 

Unit 2 of the Doel nuclear power plant in Belgium's Flanders region 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 four other reactors have already been shut down.
 

More than 15,000 tonnes of crushed concrete generated from the demolition of the turbine hall at the shutdown Sizewell A nuclear power plant in Suffolk, England, is to be used in the construction of the new Sizewell C plant.
 

The UK's Office for Nuclear Regulation has granted formal consent to EDF Energy to decommission the Hinkley Point B nuclear power plant in Somerset, England.