Past Public Meetings

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board's (the Board) Panel on Structural Geology & Geoengineering held a workshop on ESF design and construction strategies in Las Vegas, Nevada on November 4-5, 1992. The workshop focused on alternative design and construction strategies for the proposed exploratory studies facility (ESF) at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (the Board) held its fall meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, on October 14 and 15, 1992. The Board meeting, addressed two issues: the source term and the fiscal year 1993 budget for the Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Project Office.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board's (the Board) Panel on Structural Geology & Geoengineering held a meeting and field trip on September 14 - 16, 1992, on volcanic hazard and the associated vulnerabilities of the proposed high-level waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (the Board) held its summer Board meeting on July 7-8, 1992, in Denver, Colorado. The Board invited Dr. John W. Bartlett, director of the DOE's Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, to provide an update on the DOE's strategy for determining as soon as possible the suitability of the site at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board's Panel on the Engineered Barrier System (EBS Panel)held a meeting on Wednesday, May 13, 1992. The meeting focused on the high-level waste management operations and plans at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL).

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board's Panel on the Engineered Barrier System (EBS Panel) held a meeting on Monday, May 11, 1992, on the defense high-level waste management plans and operations at the DOE's Hanford, Washington, facilities.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (the Board) asked officials from the DOE to brief the Board at its April 7 and 8, 1992, meeting in Dallas, Texas, on the progress of the DOE's site-characterization program at Yucca Mountain, Nevada

The NWTRB's Panel on Transportation & Systems scheduled a two-day meeting with the DOE to review system safety and human factors engineering, the conceptual design for the planned monitored retrievable studies facility (MRS), and transportation-related facility studies.

The NWTRB's Panel on the Engineered Barrier System scheduled a meeting for February 10, 1992, in Augusta, Georgia. The DOE's Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management reviewed the status of studies on thermal loading and the engineered barrier system (EBS).

The Hyatt Regency Hotel in Irvine, California, was the site of the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board's (the Board) January 22 to 23, 1992, panel meeting on the seismic vulnerabilities of the proposed high-level waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.

On January 7 and 8, 1992, the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (the Board) met in Arlington, Virginia, with representatives of the Department of Energy (DOE) to discuss the current and future research priorities and funding allocations for the DOE's Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM), especially as they relate to the DOE's site-characterization program at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (the Board) invited representatives from the Department of Energy (DOE), the national laboratories, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), and from high-level radioactive waste management programs in Canada, Germany, and Sweden to its full Board meeting held on October 8 to 10, 1991, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The three-day meeting focused on the effects of alternative thermal loading on high-level waste repository design concepts.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (the Board), as part of its congressional mandate to independently review the Department of Energy's (DOE) high-level waste management program, scheduled a two-day meeting of its Panel on Transportation & Systems for September 25 - 26, 1991.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (the Board), as part of its congressional mandate to independently review the Department of Energy's (DOE) high-level radioactive waste management program, invited representatives of the Department of Energy (DOE) and its contractors to a two day meeting of the Board's Panel on Structural Geology & Geoengineering. The meeting, addressed the preliminary design of the exploratory studies facility (ESF) and the repository design, and was held in Las Vegas, Nevada, on September 18 and 19, 1991.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board's Panel on Transportation & Systems (T&S Panel) held its third public hearing on transportation issues on August 15, 1991, in Denver, Colorado. The purpose of the hearing was to obtain the views of citizens who might be affected by the transportation of spent fuel and defense high-level waste should a permanent repository for such waste be built at the site under evaluation by the Department of Energy (DOE) at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (the Board), as part of its congressional mandate to provide an independent review of the Department of Energy's (DOE) program to manage the disposal of the nation's civilian high-level radioactive waste, scheduled a meeting of its Panel on Structural Geology & Geoengineering for July 15, 1991. Representatives of the Department of Energy (DOE) and DOE contractors briefed panel members on the status of the Management Systems Improvement Strategy (MSIS) currently being implemented by the DOE Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM).

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (the Board), as part of its congressional mandate to independently review the Department of Energy's (DOE) program to manage the disposal of the nation's civilian high-level radioactive waste, addressed an array of issues at its third full Board meeting scheduled for July 16-17, 1991, in Arlington, Virginia.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board's (the Board) Panels on Hydrogeology & Geochemistry and Structural Geology & Geoengineering held a joint meeting from June 25-27, 1991, on the testing methods the Department of Energy (DOE) plans to use during characterization of the site at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board's (the Board) Panel on Risk & Performance Analysis held a meeting on May 20-21, 1991, in Arlington, Virginia, on performance assessment for the proposed high-level radioactive waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (Board) held a meeting on analogues on April 16, 1991, from 8:30 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. and on April 17, 1991, from 8:30 A.M. to early afternoon.