WENRA Spring Plenary Meeting held in Bled

The Spring Plenary Meeting of the Western European Nuclear Regulators Association (WENRA) was held in Bled, Slovenia on 8-9 April 2025, with the participation of Ms Andrea Beatrix Kádár, President and Mr László Juhász, Vice-President of the Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority (HAEA). The most important highlights of the plenary meeting included discussion on the findings of the Eighth Review Meeting of the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management (under the Convention each Contracting Party prepares a national report on radioactive waste management every three years, which is reviewed by the Contracting Parties at the Review Meeting), the current situation of nuclear installations in Ukraine and updates on the harmonisation of legislation and other regulatory activities of the member states.

The Chairs of the three WENRA Working Groups (Reactor Harmonisation Working Group, Working Group on Waste and Decommissioning, and the Research Reactor Working Group) reported on their recent activities and Member States engaged in a thematic discussion to review how the evaluation of designs – mainly in case of small modular reactors - adopted by one WENRA member state for similar technologies can be used by other member states in their assessments.