Finnish waste management company Posiva will share its experience and know-how of developing a repository for used nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste with the Czech Republic’s Radioactive Waste Repository Authority (SÚRAO) through a four-year service contract. world-nuclear-news.org

Continued government backing and resources are needed to further build the Belarusian nuclear safety regulator’s technical capabilities ahead of the start up of the country’s first nuclear power reactor, an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team has concluded.  world-nuclear-news.org

Russia’s nuclear power export ambitions have made gained a new potential customer as ROSATOM announced Tuesday that the company had signed a memorandum of understanding with the Nuclear Regulatory Authority of Paraguay concerning the peaceful uses of atomic energy. nuclearstreet.com

A lack of money, expertise and disposal sites mean derelict British nuclear submarines containing radioactive material will not be fully dismantled and disposed of for 25 years, officials have admitted. telegraph.co.uk