Energy services group GDES and technology company Alisys are developing an autonomous quadruped robot for decommissioning and waste management firm Enresa to support the decommissioning of the Santa María de Garoña Nuclear Power Plant in Spain.

Civil engineering for ONDRAF/NIRAS' surface disposal facility in Dessel will be carried out by the NucleusSafe partnership, with construction company Denys responsible for electromechanical aspects. Work is to begin later this year.

The removal of all four steam generators from the reactor building at Germany's shut down Unterweser nuclear power plant, which began in mid-May, has now been completed, PreussenElektra announced.

Belarus Energy Minister Denis Moroz has said the country is looking at potentially locating its planned radioactive waste disposal facility in the Grodno, Mogilev or Gomel areas.

The estimated GBP136 billion (USD184 billion) cost of decommissioning the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria would increase even more should work be further delayed, the UK House of Commons Public Accounts Committee has warned. It says not enough progress has been made in addressing the project's most significant hazards.

Lincolnshire County Council has decided to withdraw from talks about the possibility of a UK radioactive waste repository being built in Theddlethorpe. The move leaves two communities in Cumbria involved in the process of selecting a site for the permanent deep burial of nuclear waste material.

The demolition of the turbine hall and adjoining structures at the shut down Sizewell A nuclear power plant in the UK has been completed quicker and at less cost through the use of explosives, Nuclear Restoration Services announced.

Working with advanced reactor company Kairos Power, nuclear waste disposal technology company Deep Isolation has demonstrated the feasibility and potential commercial readiness of its system for managing used TRISO nuclear fuel.

French radioactive waste management agency Andra has estimated the overall cost of constructing, operating and closing France's planned deep geological repository for the disposal of high- and intermediate-level radioactive waste at between EUR26.1 billion (USD29.1 billion) and EUR37.5 billion (at 2012 prices).

The Nuclear Waste Management Organization has selected five companies to work with to design and plan the deep geological repository for used nuclear fuel that will be built in northwestern Ontario.

A new study shows that Scotland's GBP25 billion (USD33 billion) nuclear decommissioning programme could deliver significant long-term economic and social benefits at both national and local levels over the next 90 years and beyond.

Spain's nuclear regulator has approved an expansion of the on-site interim dry storage facility for used fuel at the Garoña nuclear power plant, which shut down in 2012. The expansion is required to accommodate all the fuel storage needs of the plant during its decommissioning.