Summer 2020 Board Virtual Meeting - July 27-28, 2020
The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board held a virtual public meeting on July 27–28, 2020, to review information on U.S. Department of Energy research and development activities related to disposal in a geologic repository of commercial spent nuclear fuel in dual-purpose canisters.
- Agenda - July 27-28, 2020 (pdf - 40KB)
- Summer 2020 Board Meeting - Update (pdf - 68KB)
- July 27, 2020 Transcript (pdf - 550KB)
- July 28, 2020 transcript (pdf - 468KB)
- Jean Bahr, Board Chair - Introduction July 27, 2020 (pdf - 908KB)
- Tim Gunter, DOE Office of Nuclear Energy - Review of, and Update on, Past Studies on Technical Feasibility of Dual-Purpose Canister Direct Disposal (pdf - 837KB)
- Ernest Hardin, Sandia National Laboratories - Technical Basis for Engineering Feasibility and Thermal Management (pdf - 1.7MB)
- Kaushik Banerjee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Ongoing Research and Development: Dual-Purpose Canister Reactivity Analysis (pdf - 5.2MB)
- Jean Bahr, Board Chair - Introduction July 28, 2020 (pdf - 90KB)
- Laura Price, Sandia National Laboratories - Ongoing Research and Development: Consequences of Nuclear Criticality in Dual-Purpose Canisters After Disposal (pdf - 2.3MB)
- Kaushik Banerjee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Ongoing Research and Development: Filler Approach and Testing (pdf - 15MB)
- Mark Rigali, Sandia National Laboratories - Ongoing Research and Development: Cement Filler Testing and Analysis (pdf - 1.2MB)
- Geoff Freeze, Sandia National Laboratories and Rob Howard, Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Cross-cutting Research and Development (pdf - 2MB)
- Board letter to The Honorable Rita Baranwal (January 11, 2021) (pdf - 481KB)