China has urged the US to drop its “Cold War mentality” after Washington said it planned to diversify its nuclear armoury with smaller bombs. “The country that owns the world’s largest nuclear arsenal, should take the initiative to follow the trend instead of going against it,” China’s defense ministry said on Sunday. Bbc.com

German utility PreussenElektra has announced that the decommissioning and dismantling of the Unterweser nuclear power plant (KKU) can now start, following approval from the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Environment, Energy, Building and Climate Protection. The approval is pursuant to Section 7 (3) of Germany’s Atomic Energy Act. World-nuclear-news.com

EDF subsidiary Cyclife will treat some 1800 tonnes of metal waste produced during the decommissioning of three Italian nuclear power plants under a contract signed with Societa Gestione Impianti Nucleari SpA (Sogin). The five-year contract is worth about €28 million ($35 million).  World-nuclear-news.com

A significant consotium of Turkish companies know as the Cengiz-Kolin-Kalyon group announced Wednesday that they would back out of a preliminary agreement with Russian engineering and construction giant Rosatom, citing an inability to reach contract agreements. Nuclearstreet.com