More than 100 Hungarian and foreign experts participated in the opening session of the IRRS-Mission on 11th May, 2015. The foreign experts sent by the International Atomic Energy Agency conduct a review process on the entire Hungarian nuclear regulatory infrastructure for safety and security in the next two weeks.
At the opening session Mr. Gyula
Fichtinger, Director General of the Hungarian Atomic Energy Agency highlighted
that Hungary is strongly committed to the continuous development of nuclear
safety. This is why the IRRS-mission, for which preparations have been
made since 2013, is invited to Hungary. „We would like to operate a more
efficient regulatory infrastructure” – added Gyula Fichtinger, and expressed
his hope that the recommendations to be outlined in the report would contribute
to this aim.
Ms. Andrea Beatrix Kádár, Deputy
State Secretary for Energy emphasized that the result of the IRRS-Mission
is of high importance for the Hungarian Government. The common aim is to
make the Hungarian regulatory system fully compliant with international
standards. She underlined in her speech: energy savings and energy efficiency,
regional cooperation, increasing the share of renewable energy and low
carbon-dioxide emission belong to the main goals of the National Energy
Strategy 2030, and, the maintenance of the existing nuclear capacities
is also an important element that consists of nuclear power plant service
lifetime extension and the construction of new nuclear units. The Deputy
State Secretary added: the Hungarian national programme on spent fuel management
and radioactive waste management is under elaboration.
Mr. Géza Sáfrány, the Director
General of the „Frédéric Joliot-Curie” National Research Institute
for Radiobiology and Radiohygiene of the National Public Health and Medical
Officer Service and Mr. Tibor Schwarz, the Head of the Department for Environmental
Protection of the Government Office of Baranya County also addressed the
participants and wished a successful work.
Previous press releases referring
to IRRS:
The Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority has started the preparation for the IRRS Mission