Belgium's SCK-CEN nuclear research centre has received all the licences needed for the construction and operation of a facility to support the RECUMO project to manage and recycle radioactive residues from the production of medical radioisotopes.

The Finnish government and nuclear regulator have published a comprehensive plan and an environmental impact assessment for the management of all the used fuel and radioactive waste generated in the country.

A high-pressure press for the treatment of solid radioactive wastes at the Akkuyu nuclear power plant under construction in Turkey has passed factory acceptance tests. German engineering company Nukem Technologies and Russia's Nikimt-Atomstroy said they are now ready to deliver the equipment to the plant site.

Eletronuclear of Brazil has begun transferring used fuel assemblies into dry storage at Angra unit 1 as part of a process that will make space in the reactor's used fuel pool for the next five years of operation.

Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd has placed an order with Holtec International subsidiary Holtec Asia to supply HI-STAR transport casks to serve away-from-reactor storage for Kudankulam units 1 and 2. NPCIL has also issued a call for tenders for the construction of a used fuel storage facility for Kudankulam units 3 and 4.

The Box Encapsulation Plant Product Store - Direct Import Facility, which will take on and store waste from the Pile Fuel Cladding Silo at the Sellafield site in the UK, has successfully completed its first dry run of a storage box being transferred from road to its long-term storage vault.

The US Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management is to deactivate and demolish the land-based prototype for a reactor plant used in the first nuclear-powered submarine. The Submarine 1st Generation Westinghouse was built inside a section of a submarine hull at the Naval Reactors Facility in the Arco Desert, west of Idaho Falls.

California-based Oklo Inc and Argonne National Laboratory have signed an agreement formalising their commitment to commercialising recycling technology for advanced reactor fuel as part of a US Department of Energy-funded project.

The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) and Terrestrial Energy are to explore ANSTO's Synroc proprietary waste treatment technology for used fuel management from the operation of Terrestrial's Integral Molten Salt Reactor.

Work on the Safety Significant Confinement Ventilation System at the US Department of Energy's Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico made significant progress last year following earlier delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ukraine's central storage site for used nuclear fuel is in cold testing and should receive its first shipments in April, according to its operator, the utility Energoatom.

Nuclear Waste Services has been launched, bringing together into one organisation site operator Low Level Waste Repository Limited, geological disposal facility developer Radioactive Waste Management Limited and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority group's Integrated Waste Management Programme.