Two underground radioactive waste tanks at the Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina have been filled with more than 1 million gallons of grout as part of the operational closing of the tanks.

The Japanese government approved a 1 trillion yen ($12.5 billion) bailout for Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) and put it under temporary state control.

Japan, on May 5, 2012, will shut down the country’s lone remaining nuclear power plant.

The Missouri Public Service Commission approved an agreement between the commission’s staff and Kansas City Power & Light (KCP&L) on cost estimates to decommission the 1,200 MW Wolf Creek nuclear power plant 55 miles south of Topeka in Kansas.

Waste Control Specialists LLC (WCS), a subsidiary of Valhi Inc., on April 27 said the first shipment of low-level radioactive waste, received from Bionomics Inc., has been safely disposed of in the Texas Compact Facility.

The Department of Energy (DOE) said it will extend CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Co.’s contract for environmental cleanup at the Hanford Site by another five years.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) said Nuclear Waste Partnership LLC has been awarded a $1.3 billion operation and management contract at DOE’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad, N.M.

Areva has renewed its operating contract of the Aube Storage Center for Andra, the National Radioactive Waste Management Agency, Eastern France, for a period of three years plus two optional years, in an amount of up to 10 million Euros.

RWE Chief Executive Juergen Grossmann on April 19 said the German utility has filed a legal complaint against the government's nuclear exit bill at the Constitutional Court.

Magnox said it hit a major decommissioning milestone on April 16 when the first of the four reactors at the Chapelcross site near Dumfriesshire, Scotland was fully de-fuelled.

The UK and Japan on April 10 agreed to the Framework on Civil Nuclear Cooperation, providing the basis for UK companies to engage in multi-billion pound decommissioning opportunities in Japan.

Waste Control Specialists LLC, a subsidiary of Valhi Inc., said it will acquire at least two, federally certified shipping casks to facilitate generators’ transportation of Class B and C low-level radioactive waste to the newly-opened Texas Compact Disposal Facility for disposal.

After over 40 years of safe operation, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) said the Wylfa 2 nuclear power plant will shut down on April 30.

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) on April 4 signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the National Nuclear Laboratory Ltd. (NNL) to help the UK government look at ways to address its growing stockpile of plutonium.

The Babcock Dounreay Partnership, a consortium made of Babcock International, CH2MHILL and URS, said they have won the largest site closure contract ever in the UK.

EnergySolutions said the partnership it has formed with Environmental Dimensions Inc. has been awarded a $200 million contract for waste characterization, processing and waste operations services for the U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico.

Magnox’s two-unit, 434 MW Oldbury power station, considered to be the world’s oldest operating nuclear power station, ceased generation at 11 a.m. on Feb. 29, 2012.

EnergySolutions said it has been awarded a four-year contract to design and supply waste management systems for the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) nuclear energy program.

The Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future on Jan. 26 released its final report to the U.S. Energy Secretary, detailing recommendations for creating a safe, long-term solution for managing and disposing of the nation's spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste.