The Budapest Energy and Security Talks is a leading international conference in Hungary aiming to provide a platform for key political, foreign policy and economic leaders to engage and re-engage in an in-depth, strategic dialogue on the Central-Eastern European region’s most important security and energy challenges. At the 14 July event, participants included more than 200 top political and economic decision-makers, opinion-formers, and foreign and security policy experts from the European Union, the United States, and Central and Eastern Europe.

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The Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority (HAEA), together with the US Department of Energy (DoE), organized a regional conference on the end-of-life management of radioactive sources in Budapest from 22 to 26 June 2026. In addition to Hungarian and US experts, the event was attended by regulatory and industry experts from Armenia, Bulgaria, Czechia, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Türkiye, Ukraine, Serbia and Slovakia.

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Please note that the P.O. Box of the Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority (HAEA) will no longer function after 30 June 2026.

From 1 July 2026, all paper-based correspondence addressed to the HAEA should be sent to the following address:

Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority
1036 Budapest, Fényes Adolf Street 4.
Hungary

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The newsletter presents the 2026 annual safety performance assessment of of nuclear facilities, the changes in legislation related to the use of nuclear energy, particularly related to small modular reactors. The document provides information on the safety culture development programme and the preparation for the Paks Nuclear Power Plant further lifetime extension of the Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority, and the regulatory activities related to the first concrete pouring of Paks II. project.

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The Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority (HAEA) hosted an event on the licensing of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) for nuclear regulatory authorities from June 2–4, 2026, as part of the SPRING (SMR Pan-Regional Interest Nuclear Group) initiative supported by the U.S. Department of State.

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