The installation of equipment has begun at TVEL's JSC Electrochemical Plant in Zelenogorsk in Russia's Krasnoyarsk Region for W2-ECP, the country's second plant for the processing of depleted uranium hexafluoride. The plant is part of a long-term project to manage and make use of depleted uranium stocks in Russia.

The Australian government is no longer looking to site a national low and intermediate-level radioactive waste facility in Napandee near Kimba in South Australia. It said it will not appeal a Federal Court decision to dismiss a 2021 declaration naming Napandee the proposed site for the facility.

The International Atomic Energy Agency has carried out the inaugural mission, in Thailand, of the Disused Sealed Radioactive Sources Technical Centre peer review service. This new service aims to enlarge the global pool of resources and support for countries in the sustainable management of these sources.

Societa Gestione Impianti Nucleari SpA, the Italian state-owned company responsible for decommissioning the country's nuclear power plants, has announced the launch of a tender for the dismantling of the reactor vessel and internals of the Garigliano nuclear power plant.

Japanese utilities Chugoku Electric Power Company and Kansai Electric Power Company plan to jointly investigate the construction of a used fuel interim storage facility in Kaminoseki town in Yamaguchi prefecture. The facility would be built on land Chugoku acquired to build a nuclear power plant, plans for which have stalled.

An International Atomic Energy Agency mission has said that Lithuania's process for selecting a site for its proposed deep geological repository for radioactive waste is in line international safety standards.

Sweden's radioactive waste management company Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB has signed a collaboration agreement with construction firm Skanska regarding the expansion of the existing SFR final repository for low and intermediate-level waste at Forsmark.

Nuclear Waste Services is preparing 260 containers of radioactive waste for final emplacement in disposal vaults at the UK's Low Level Waste Repository in Cumbria. Ahead of this work NWS made extensive improvements to the grouting facility at the site.

Canada's Nuclear Waste Management Organization has submitted recommendations to the country's Minister of Natural Resources, Jonathan Wilkinson, for an Integrated Strategy for Radioactive Waste. In late 2020, the minister asked NWMO to lead a dialogue to develop the strategy.

The radioactive waste management organisations of Slovenia and Croatia have contracted Deep Isolation to deliver a cost study on potential borehole disposal of used fuel and high-level radioactive wastes from the Krško nuclear power plant.

Italy's Societa Gestione Impianti Nucleari SpA has awarded a contract worth EUR43 million (USD47 million) for the construction of the Finished Product Cementation Plant at the Itrec facility on the Rotondella site in the province of Matera, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata.

A project is under way to decommission a long-established storage facility for radioactive waste at the Ural Electrochemical Plant.