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Germany's Nukem Technologies Engineering Services GmbH - a subsidiary of Russia's TVEL - announced that the experimental setup for its state-of-the-art in-barrel cementation facility has been successfully completed.

A Geological Disposal Facility Working Group has been formed in South Holderness, East Riding of Yorkshire, UK, to begin engagement about whether the area might be suitable for hosting an underground radioactive waste disposal facility. Three other communities are already involved in the siting process.

Work has started on mining a new panel at the US Department of ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß's Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). Panel 11 is the first of two waste emplacement panels approved last year by the New Mexico Environment Department as part of a 10-year extension of WIPP's operating permit.

Finland's Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority has requested the deadline for its opinion on Posiva Oy's operating licence application for the world's first used fuel repository to be extended until the end of 2024. In September last year, it said it would not complete its review by the end of 2023 as originally planned.

The Canadian nuclear regulator has amended the licence held by Canadian Nuclear Laboratories for Chalk River Laboratories in Ontario, authorising the construction of a near-surface disposal facility for low-level radioactive waste at the site.

Belgium has a robust national infrastructure for the management of radioactive waste and used fuel, an International Atomic ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Agency mission has said, and recommended the development of consolidated policies for specific waste streams and for decision-making on a geological repository.

A record number of 31 disused sealed radioactive sources have been transferred from Chile to a recycling facility in Europe as part of an International Atomic ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Agency multi-regional project to enhance nuclear security and radiation safety.

Energoatom and Holtec have announced that Ukraine's new Centralised Spent Fuel Storage Facility is up and running receiving used nuclear fuel from the country's nuclear power plants.

The newly-opened Box Encapsulation Plant Product Store - Direct Import Facility at the Sellafield site in the UK has received its first box of historical radioactive waste.

Plans for a centralised low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste logistics centre at the former Würgassen nuclear power plant have been shelved by the German Federal Environment Ministry due to "too many legal and planning risks". The waste would then have been sent to the Konrad repository for disposal.

Commissioning of the new large-scale ventilation system at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant is at the top of the list of the US Department of ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Office of Environmental Management's priorities for 2023.

The 10-year process of dismantling the Lepse, which was used to refuel the nuclear icebreaker fleet from 1963 to 1981 and then used for the storage of used fuel and radioactive waste, has been completed, Rosatom says.