The International Atomic Energy Agency, with the participation of experts from the Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority and the Energy Research Institute, held a regional meeting on the Integrated Nuclear Security Sustainability Plan in Montenegro from 3 to 7 June 2024. The objective of the meeting was to provide participants with an overview of the recent revision of the Plan, which provides a complex assessment and evaluation of the nuclear security systems of each Member State, its revised objectives and, in this context, the possibilities for Member States to support the development of the nuclear security regulatory system.
A nuclear safety inspector of the Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority, András Gábor Siklósi, participated in the expert mission of the European Union, which aimed to evaluate the comprehensive and transparent risk and safety assessment (so called stress test) report for the NPP under construction at the Akkuyu site. During the site visit the experts carried out walk-downs and consulted with the representatives of the Turkish nuclear regulator as well as the representatives of the Licensee in order to finalize their findings made during the years long peer review process.
On May 23, 2024, the international expert group of European Nuclear Safety Regulators’ Group (ENSREG) visited the site of the Budapest Research Reactor. The purpose of the visit was to discuss the National Assessment Report prepared during the European Union’s Topical Peer Review II (TPR II) self-assessment process and related expert questions. Based on the visit, the experts could formulate and finalize their recommendations and identify good practices, which could be useful for other European Union member states. The topic of the visit, in line with the objectives of TPR II, was fire safety/fire protection issues, primarily in research reactor-type nuclear facilities.
Two thousand experts from 130 countries attended the event of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) held in Vienna on 20-24 May 2024 with the aim of reaffirming the joint commitment to strengthen nuclear security. The objective of nuclear security is to prevent, detect and respond to the malicious activities of terrorists or other groups which aim to obtain nuclear or other radioactive materials or to sabotage related technologies. The conference was attended by the delegation of the Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority.
The traditional annual meeting of the leaders of the Czech, Hungarian, Slovak and Slovenian nuclear authorities organized this year by the Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority took place on May 14-15, 2024 in Balatonfüred, Hungary. Partner authorities of Finland and Poland also participated in this year’s event. The Hungarian delegation was led by Andrea Beatrix Kádár, President of the Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority. The participants of the meeting presented the most important organizational and legislative changes affecting their regulatory activities, discussed the challenges of the existing national regulatory mechanisms, and reviewed the regulatory tasks related to the construction of new nuclear power plants, including small modular reactors. Additionally, representatives of the participating authorities gave an overview on events affecting the safety of supervised nuclear facilities and shared their experience of cooperation at both EU and international level.