The Institute of Nuclear Techniques (INT) of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BUTE) is part of the Faculty of Natural Sciences. The Institute consitutes of two units: the Department of Nuclear Techniques organises the educational tasks of the Institute, whereas the Department of Nuclear Energy operates the Nuclear Training Reactor. However, every member of the academic staff of the Insitute has his/her own tasks as well in the education and training as in the reactor operation.

Students from abroad can also study in the Institute of Nuclear Techniques. Group of graduate students of the Slovak Technical University Bratislava and the Czech Technical University Prague come here regularly and perform laboratory experiments. A few students of the University of Rennes INSA (France) have prepared their diplome work here, and we recieved PhD students form Delft University (The Netherlands) as well. Every year there is a common project work done by a group of students of the Ecole de Mines de Nantes (France) and our Hungarian students. Following the request of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Vienna the staff of the Institute of Nuclear Techniques has organised technical courses of different duration - from 6 weeks to 3 months - for professionals of developing countries about the utilisation of research reactors. We also regularly train individual young professionals with the fellowship of the IAEA. 

The educational and research activity of the Institue is centered around the Training Reactor, but it is accompanied by other theoretical fields of the nuclear techniques. An internationally accredited radiochemistry laboratory is working here as well. The Training Reactor can be visited by all students of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, but also by external visitors.