Swedish nuclear technical services provider Studsvik is to provide Japanese nuclear engineering start-up ReNu Industries Inc with technical information and advice on design conditions for a Japanese version of inDRUM, its patented technology for the treatment of problematic radioactive wastes.
 

Finnish radioactive waste management company Posiva has been granted a licence to operate the encapsulation and final disposal facility for used nuclear fuel located in Olkiluoto. It is the world's first repository for used fuel to be granted such a licence.
 

The US firm Deep Isolation has conducted a cost assessment for Slovenia's radioactive waste agency which has concluded it would be more economic for used fuel from the TRIGA II research reactor and from the Krško Nuclear Power Plant to be placed in the same disposal facility deep underground.
 

Norwegian Nuclear Decommissioning has signed an agreement with Swedish nuclear technical services provider Studsvik to manage used nuclear fuel from the former research reactors at Halden and Kjeller.
 

South Korea's Hyundai Engineering & Construction announced it has employed equipment it has developed to excavate a full-scale deposition hole for used nuclear fuel disposal in the bedrock at its research demonstration site.
 

Uranium enrichment services provider Urenco has officially commissioned the uranium oxide storage facility at its site in Gronau, Germany. Construction of the facility was completed several years ago.
 

The 80-metre-high exhaust stack has been demolished at the decommissioned Stade nuclear power plant in Lower Saxony, Germany. Since 1970, the stack had been a prominent feature of the power plant's skyline and shaped the site for decades.
 

EDF subsidiary Cyclife announced the Chinon A nuclear power plant dismantling project has reached a major milestone with the validation of the contractual strategy for dismantling the Chinon A2 plant's heat exchangers.
 

Seven packages containing low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste have been shipped after processing from the Industrial Complex for Solid Radioactive Waste Management.