Japanese utility Chubu Electric Power Company announced it has removed the upper lid of the pressure vessel of unit 2 at its Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Shizuoka prefecture as it begins to dismantle the reactor. It becomes the first commercial power reactor in Japan to enter dismantling.

Japan's Fukushima Institute for Research, Education and Innovation and the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority have signed a memorandum of cooperation on joint research in robotics and autonomous systems, including applications in nuclear decommissioning.

The Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority has given its approval for Norwegian Nuclear Decommissioning to assume responsibility for the nuclear fuel and materials testing reactor at Halden, which is to be decommissioned. It is now up to the government to grant an operating licence.

Work has started on the first stage of decommissioning HIFAR, Australia's first nuclear reactor, which shut down in 2007 after nearly 50 years in operation.

Unit 1 of the Doel nuclear power plant has been taken offline for the final time after 50 years of operation and disconnected from the grid. Its closure is in line with Belgium's 2003 nuclear phase-out policy, under which two other reactors have already been shut down.

Tokyo Electric Power Company has announced plans to start dismantling treated water tanks at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant site, primarily to clear space needed to store nuclear fuel debris to be extracted from the damaged reactors.

The dismantling of a reactor pressure vessel at the Oskarshamn nuclear power plant marks the completion of a project to dismantle the RPVs of four decommissioned reactors in Sweden.

The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute has transferred the technology behind Armstrong, its dual-arm robot which can move up to 200 kilograms, to robot company Victex, which aims to develop models targeting the nuclear decommissioning market.

The first licence for the decommissioning of a uranium mine in Brazil has been issued to the Caldas Decommissioning Unit of Indústrias Nucleares do Brasil.