The Lower Saxony Ministry for the Environment, Energy and Climate Protection, acting on behalf of the federal government, has approved an application from Framatome subsidiary Advanced Nuclear Fuels to expand its facility in Lingen for the production of fuel for VVER-1000 reactors. The approval is subject to strict conditions.
 

The demolition of the reactor building at the decommissioned Stade nuclear power plant in Lower Saxony, Germany, has been under way since the end of March this year and is expected to be completed by the end of the year.
 

"Reactivating German nuclear power is a technically feasible and sensible option," a group of former managers of nuclear power plants in Germany and nuclear technology experts have said in a letter to the German government.
 

The third and final return of high-level waste, in the form of vitrified residue, from the UK to Germany has been completed. The waste being returned is a legacy of Sellafield's overseas fuel reprocessing programme.
 

PreussenElektra has received the second and final permit needed for the dismantling of the Grohnde nuclear power plant in Germany.
 

All the used nuclear fuel assemblies in the storage pool at Germany's Grohnde nuclear power plant have been transferred to an on-site interim storage facility, PreussenElektra announced.
 

Katherina Reiche, Germany's economy and energy minister, discussed the likely impact on the country's economy if the Iran conflict continues - as well as the need for a "correction" to energy policies in Europe, at a conference in the USA.
 

Munich-based Proxima Fusion has signed an agreement with the Free State of Bavaria, RWE, and Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics to construct the world's first commercial stellarator fusion power plant at the former Gundremmingen nuclear power plant site.
 

All the used nuclear fuel assemblies in the storage pool at the Brokdorf nuclear power plant have been transferred to an on-site interim storage facility, allowing the plant to move into the second phase of its decommissioning, PreussenElektra announced.