Europe-wide emergency exercise hosted by Hungary

Based on the RESPEC (Radiological Emergency Support Project for the European Commission) contract between the European Commission (EC), Directorate-General for Energy and the Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority, the HAEAorganised the annual ECUREX exercise in coordination with the EC. The ECUREX is a nuclear emergency response exercise for testing and examining the ECURIE (European Community Urgent Radiological Information Exchange) system.

The host country of this exercise was Hungary and the scenario took place at Paks Nuclear Power Plant. All ECURIE Member States (31 countries) participated in this exercise which was held on March 28, 2017. The duration of the exercise was 12 hours.

The HAEA Emergency Response Organisation analysed and reported successfully the nuclear and radiological situation based on the exercise scenario to the ECURIE Member States via the ECURIE system and fulfilled the RESPEC support for the EC.

The evaluation of the exercise will be performed by the HAEA and published by the EC.