German utility RWE has been granted a permit by the Lower Saxony Ministry for the Environment, Energy and Climate Protection for the decommissioning and dismantling of the Emsland nuclear power plant.

The first used fuel has been placed into a space-saving storage rack at the storage pond for Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor fuel at the Thorp reprocessing plant on the Sellafield site in Cumbria, UK.

Germany's federally-owned BGZ Gesellschaft für Zwischenstorage mbH has taken over the newly-constructed interim storage facility for low and intermediate-level radioactive waste at the Brunsbüttel nuclear power plant site.

The Lower Saxony Ministry of the Environment has rejected an application from environmental groups NABU and BUND to revoke or withdraw the planning approval decision for the Konrad repository for low and intermediate-level radioactive waste.

A new snake-like inspection robot has been trialed at the Dounreay site in Scotland, UK, to survey confined spaces.

The first stage of the trial run of placing disposal cannisters in the Onkalo used nuclear fuel repository has been completed successfully, Finnish waste management company Posiva has announced.

The UK's Office for Nuclear Regulation has approved EDF Energy's application to start decommissioning the Hunterston B nuclear power plant in Scotland. This decision comes after a public consultation and a detailed assessment by ONR specialist inspectors of EDF Energy's environmental statement.

The defueling of the first of two advanced gas-cooled reactors at the Hinkley Point B nuclear power plant in Somerset, the UK, has been completed.

Rosatom has said that its work to resolve nuclear legacy issues in Russia's Far East has been successful, including the dismantling of dozens of decommissioned nuclear-powered submarines.