Spring 2024 Board Meeting - May 21-22, 2024
The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board will hold a public meeting in mid-May 2024, to review information on the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) research and development activities related to non-site-specific disposal of radioactive waste in crystalline host rocks and on corrosion of commercial spent nuclear fuel after disposal. The meeting will be held in the vicinity of Knoxville-Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and virtually.
Spring 2024 Board Meeting
May 21-22, 2024
Hilton Knoxville
501 W. Church Avenue
Knoxville, TN 37902
(865) 523-2300
POC: Chandrika Manepally; manepally@nwtrb.gov; 703-235-4489 and
Hundal Jung; jung@nwtrb.gov; 703-235-9135
- Agenda - May 21-22, 2024 (pdf - 75KB)
- Spring 2024 Board Meeting (April 16, 2024) (pdf - 168KB)
- Nathan Siu - NWTRB Opening Remarks - May 21, 2024 (pdf - 755KB)
- Timothy Gunter - Office of Disposal Research & Development (pdf - 625KB)
- David Sassani - Overview of Disposal R&D Activities (pdf - 2MB)
- Emily Stein and Yifeng Wang - Overview of Activities Related to Disposal in Crystalline Host Rock (pdf - 2.1MB)
- Patrick Dobson - Geophysical Techniques for Site and Excavation Damage Zone (EDZ) Characterization (pdf - 2.3MB)
- Matthew Sweeney - Physical and Geochemical Processes that Impact Flow and Transport in Crystalline Host Rock (pdf - 2.2MB)
- Yifeng Wang - Buffer, Extrusion, Erosion, and Clogging (pdf - 1.1MB)
- Yifeng Wang - R&D activities to address Spring high temperature and pH conditions in EB (pdf - 2.2MB)
- Paul Mariner and Rosie Leone - GDSA R&D Activities Related to Crystalline Host Rock (pdf - 1.7MB)
- Laura Pyrak-Nolte - The Central Role of Geometry in Fracture Behavior (pdf - 21MB)
- Nathan Siu - NWTRB Opening Remarks - May 22, 2024 (pdf - 108KB)
- Erika Holt and Barbara Pastina- Spent nuclear fuel disposal in crystalline rock - Current status and lessons learned from Finland (pdf - 1.6MB)
- Andy Parameter - Crystalline Rock Site Characterization by Canada's Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) (pdf - 11MB)
- David Sassani and Brady Hanson - Overview of Commercial SNF Degradation Rate Models (pdf - 1.4MB)
- Paul Mariner and Sara Thomas - Fuel Matrix Degradation Modeling and Electrochemical Testing (pdf - 898KB)
- Comments Submitted Online by Virtual Attendees During the Meeting - May 21 (pdf - 109KB)
- Comments Submitted Online by Virtual Attendees During Meeting - May 22 (pdf - 13KB)