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.

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.