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Sites being decommissioned - such as the Hanford one, which dates back to the Manhattan Project in the 1940s - have historically been seen as liabilities. But should they be more recognised for their future value?
 

The Lithuanian state-owned company leading the decommissioning of the Ignalina nuclear power plant, Altra, has launched an international tender for the design and dismantling of the reactor cores of the plant's two RBMK-1500 reactors.
 

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has approved a draft law which extends to 2036 the funding for the State Programme for the Decommissioning of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant and the Transformation of the Shelter Object into an Environmentally Safe System.
 

Italy's Societa Gestione Impianti Nucleari SpA has begun operations to re-encapsulate 64 uranium-thorium fuel elements currently held in the storage pool at the Itrec facility on the Rotondella site in the province of Matera, in the southern Italian region of Basilicata.
 

Tokyo Electric Power Company has announced the start of the removal of fuel assemblies from the used fuel storage pool of unit 2 at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan.
 

Nuclear Restoration Services has announced the completion of a 20-year project to remove all the remaining intermediate-level radioactive waste from the shut-down Trawsfynydd nuclear power plant in Gwynedd, North Wales, UK.
 

PreussenElektra has received the second and final permit needed for the dismantling of the Grohnde nuclear power plant in Germany.
 

The Norwegian government is to accelerate the process of transferring the nuclear facilities at Kjeller from the Institute of Energy Technology to Norwegian Nuclear Decommissioning. The transfer could now take place as soon as 1 January 2027.
 

Italy's Societa Gestione Impianti Nucleari SpA has signed a memorandum of understanding with the UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority to launch a joint effort on decommissioning techniques for graphite-moderated nuclear power reactors.