Loyalist paramilitaries should not have another year to decommission their weapons, the Police Federation says.

The decommissioning of Dounreay reaches a milestone with a machine to dismantle the core in place.

A new nuclear laboratory is coming up with inventions that will reduce risks and speed up decommissioning work at Sellafield and other nuclear facilities.

The government must stand firm on its deadline for loyalist decommissioning, SDLP leader Mark Durkan says.

The secretary of state announces loyalist paramilitaries will have another year to decommission their weapons.

It is the end of the road for British Nuclear Fuels, the monolithic government body that for decades was synonymous with the UK nuclear industry. On Monday, an international consortium of private companies take over the running of Sellafield, cleaning up half a Century of nuclear waste.

Ten teenagers are arrested after what is thought to be a decommissioned firearm is found by police.

A grandmother was killed after a back boiler exploded at her home in Twyning, an inquest hears.

Proposals for decommissioning an ageing nuclear reactor are opened up to public debate.

The former Manx prison on Victoria Road is decommissioned after inmates were transferred to a new jail.

The Royal Navy's longest-serving submarine, HMS Superb, is decommissioned at a ceremony at a naval base in Plymouth.

French nuclear giant EDF's desire to take over the UK's biggest nuclear power generator, British Energy, would follow French Areva's recent deal to clean up old nuclear waste.

Loyalist paramilitaries are given six months to get rid of their guns, but will they meet the deadline?

The government has held secret talks with the UDA leadership about the decommissioning of its weapons.

A group including the UK's Amec is named as the preferred choice to run the Sellafield nuclear site - a contract worth £1.3bn a year.

The cost of decommissioning nuclear power sites could rise "significantly" above the £73 billion already estimated, MPs say.

The UK's first nuclear recycling plant to be based outside an existing atomic facility is being built in Cumbria.

A company decommissioning Dounreay is asking a council to consider a £110m scheme.

The oldest active ship in the US, the USS Kitty Hawk, leaves Japan to be decommissioned after nearly half a century of service.