Italy's Ministry of Economic Development has issued a decree authorising state-owned nuclear decommissioning and radioactive waste management company Sogin to begin phase one of decommissioning the Latina nuclear power plant in Lazio, south of Rome.

The Latina plant, a 153-MW Magnox graphite gas

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The reactor pressure vessel has been removed from the Bohunice-1 nuclear power plant in Slovakia, a decommissioning milestone that means remote dismantling of the facility can begin.

The metal RPV, with a weight of almost 200 tonnes and a height of 11 metres, was lifted from its concrete shield