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A shelter was rapidly built over the ruins of Chernobyl reactor 4 in 1986, but it was never meant to be a long-term fix. So the giant New Safe Confinement arch, designed to last 100 years, was built to fully enclose the area and allow the safe removal of the original shelter and the remains of the destroyed unit. Even without the damage caused by the 2025 drone strike it was a process due to take many decades. So, forty years after the accident, what is the current situation and what does the future hold?
 

All the used nuclear fuel assemblies in the storage pool at Germany's Grohnde nuclear power plant have been transferred to an on-site interim storage facility, PreussenElektra announced.
 

With the dismantling of the reactor channels of unit 1 at Lithuania's Ignalina nuclear power plant complete, the country's nuclear regulator has now issued a permit for dismantling and decontamination works on the upper and lower zone equipment of the reactor channels of unit 2.
 

Ownership of the Hunterston B nuclear power station in North Ayrshire, Scotland, has transferred from EDF Energy to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority for the site's decommissioning.
 

The UK's Office for Nuclear Regulation has formally approved the relicensing of the Hunterston B nuclear power plant in North Ayrshire, Scotland - from EDF to Nuclear Restoration Services - marking the beginning of the site's decommissioning phase.
 

Closing nuclear power plants like Indian Point was a "foolish" political decision, US Energy Secretary Chris Wright said as New York Congressman Mike Lawler called for the two-unit plant to be "rebuilt and reopened" to help lower energy costs and strengthen grid reliability.
 

An interim report on options for the full restoration of the New Safe Confinement's protective functions is due to be presented later this month. Serhii Tarakanov, Director General of SSE Chornobyl NPP, says the aim is for the repair work to be completed by 2030.
 

Finland's Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority has declared that the site of the country's first nuclear reactor is no longer classified as a nuclear facility following the dismantling of the Finnish Reactor 1 in Espoo.
 

Tokyo Electric Power Company has begun its internal investigation of Fukushima Daiichi unit 3's primary containment vessel, using palm-sized micro-drones.