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.
 

The German states of Bavaria, Hamburg, Hesse, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein have formed the Alliance for Fusion Research.
 

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.
 

Berlin-based Gauss Fusion GmbH has presented what it says is Europe's first full design for a commercial fusion power plant.
 

The German cabinet has approved the federal government's action plan aimed at accelerating commercial fusion deployment in Germany. By 2029, more than EUR2 billion (USD2.3 billion) will be invested in fusion research, as well as the development of new research infrastructures and pilot projects.
 

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.

An exploratory borehole is providing the first indications of the condition of the stored drums containing radioactive waste within Storage Chamber 12 at the former Asse II salt mine in the district of Wolfenbüttel, Lower Saxony, Germany.

The removal of all four steam generators from the reactor building at Germany's shut down Unterweser nuclear power plant, which began in mid-May, has now been completed, PreussenElektra announced.

Germany's Wendelstein 7-X - the world's largest stellarator-type fusion device - has achieved a world record in a key parameter of fusion physics: the triple product. This value now exceeds previous tokamak records for long plasma durations.