Bradwell has become the first Magnox site to empty and decontaminate all of its underground waste storage vaults ready for the care and maintenance phase, Magnox Sites has announced. Owned by Cavendish Fluor Partnership, Magnox Sites is the management and operations contractor responsible for safely managing 12 nuclear sites and one hydroelectric plant in the UK working for the sites’ owner, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA). world-nuclear-news.org

The UK government has set a fifth carbon budget aimed at cutting the country’s carbon dioxide emissions by almost 57% by 2032 compared with 1990 levels. Legislation ultimately aims to cut the UK’s emissions by 80% by 2050. world-nuclear-news.org

French utility EDF and Japanese industrial giant Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) said they had signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that forges a cooperative strategic and global relationship in civil nuclear power fields. nuclearstreet.com

Not all conservationists back a recent agreement between environmental groups and California’s largest utility provider to close the state’s last nuclear power facility in nine years. billingsgazette.com