South Africa's National Nuclear Regulator has granted a nuclear licence to the National Radioactive Waste Disposal Institute for the management and operation of South Africa's disposal facility for low-level radioactive wastes.

The start of full-scale fuel debris removal from the damaged reactors at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is now expected to begin in 2037 at the earliest, instead of the early 2030s.

The second complex of the Experimental and Demonstration Centre, which will process used nuclear fuel, has been launched, and follows an initial experimental stage.

In a world first, a robotic arm has been retrofitted and operated inside an active nuclear glovebox at Sellafield in the UK, helping to remove the risk to operators and promising to make decades-old gloveboxes safer to dispose of.

A simulation of the Pile Fuel Cladding Silo - one of the oldest waste stores and one of the highest hazard facilities on the UK's Sellafield site - is making it safer to upgrade robots handling waste within it.

The National Audit Office has outlined delays of more than 10 years in the construction of Bulgaria's National Repository for Long-Term Storage of Low- and Intermediate-Level Radioactive Waste. It also identified alleged public procurement irregularities.

Energoatom is pushing ahead with plans with Westinghouse to create a plant for the production of fuel assemblies in Ukraine, and with Holtec for manufacturing plants for small modular reactors and for storage containers for used nuclear fuel.

Lithuania's State Enterprise Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant is to collaborate with France-headquartered innovative reactor developer Newcleo on assessing the possibilities of applying advanced fast reactor technology in the Baltic state.

Tomsk Polytechnic University has been commissioned by Rosatom's fuel division TVEL to create an innovative X-ray machine designed for non-destructive testing of containers with radioactive waste.