To foster the younger generation’s interest in nuclear science and technology, the IAEA has held an international student competition in conjunction with the Third International Conference on Human Resource Development for Nuclear Power Programmes in the Republic of Korea, from 28-31 May 2018.
2017 Safety Performance Assessment of nuclear facilities. The HAEA hosted an international expert working group meeting. Visits of IAEA fellows. WENRA meeting. The EU Topical Peer Review. The evaluation of the Paks Nuclear Power Plant's Periodic Safety Report (PSR) has begun. Comprehensive inspection exercise in Hungary under Safeguards Support Program. The experiences of the regulatory event investigation of fuel assemblies’ welding insufficiency and fuel assembly misplacement at Budapest Research Reactor. Situation of Expansion of Spent Fuel Interim Storage Facility (SFISF) in 2017. The first periodic safety review of the RWTDF is concluded. The operation license of the National Radioactive Waste Disposal Facility. Foreign bodies in the sprinkler system – Event Investigation. Changes in the HNERP.
The annual quadrilateral meeting of the Czech, Hungarian, Slovak and Slovenian nuclear regulatory authorities was held at the HAEA, in Budapest from 3 to 4 May 2018. The parties described the most important events at their respective authorities and the regulatory work related to existing and new NPP’s since their last meeting in 2017.