Press Releases and Announcements

Mr. Nigel Mote will become Executive Director of the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, effective November 23, 2009.

The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board will meet at National Harbor, Maryland, on Wednesday, September 23, 2009, to discuss the implications of alternative technological strategies for the management and disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste.

The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board will meet in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Thursday, June 11, 2009, to discuss the status and projected amounts of domestic commercial and Department of Energy (DOE)-owned spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and defense high-level radioactive waste (HLW) and research and data needs for very long-term storage of SNF and HLW.

The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board will meet in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Wednesday, January 28, 2009. The focus of the meeting is expected to be repository tunnel stability and issues related to burnup credit.

On Wednesday, September 24, 2008, the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board will meet in Las Vegas, Nevada. At the meeting, the Board will review U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) activities related to designing and operating a waste management system in connection with the proposed repository for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste (HLW) at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.

On Thursday, May 29, 2008, the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board will meet in Las Vegas, Nevada, to discuss the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) total system performance assessment (TSPA) of the proposed repository for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.

On Wednesday, January 16, 2008, the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board will meet in Las Vegas, Nevada, to review U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) activities related to the proposed repository for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.

The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board will meet in Las Vegas, Nevada on Wednesday, September 19, 2007. The focus of the meeting will be repository surface-facility designs and operations; other technical issues also may be discussed.

The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board will meet in Arlington, Virginia, on Tuesday, May 15, 2007. The Board will discuss several topics, including the use of depleted uranium oxide, a drilling program carried out by Inyo County in California, waste package designs, DOE’s saturated zone model, near-field chemistry, probabilistic volcanic hazards analysis, and Global Nuclear Energy Partnership.

The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board’s Panel on Postclosure Performance will meet in Berkeley, California, on Wednesday, March 14, 2007. The meeting agenda will focus on the U. S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) infiltration estimates for the proposed repository site for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.

The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board will meet in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Wednesday, January 24, 2007. The meeting agenda will include updates on Department of Energy (DOE) technical and scientific activities related to the proposed repository for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.

The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board will meet in Amargosa Valley, Nevada, on Wednesday, September 27, 2006, to review the Department of Energy's (DOE) efforts to develop and articulate a safety case for a proposed geologic repository for the disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.

On Monday and Tuesday, September 25-26, 2006, the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board will host a workshop on localized corrosion in Las Vegas, Nevada. The focus of the workshop will be the potential for localized corrosion of Alloy-22 under aqueous conditions that might exist in a proposed Yucca Mountain repository.

The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board will meet in McLean, Virginia, on Tuesday May 9, 2006. The Board will review DOE efforts to develop and implement a "clean canister" or "TAD" approach to waste management.

The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board will meet in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Wednesday, February 1, 2006. At the meeting, the Board will review DOE efforts to develop a fundamental understanding of phenomena that would affect radionuclide releases from a proposed repository for permanent disposal of the waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.

The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board will meet in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Tuesday, November 8, and for a half-day on Wednesday, November 9, 2005. The Board will discuss a range of technical and scientific issues pertinent to the Department of Energy’s (DOE) efforts to develop a repository for the permanent disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.

The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board will meet in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Wednesday, February 9, and in Caliente, Nevada, on Thursday, February 10, 2005. Technical and scientific issues pertinent to the Department of Energy's (DOE) efforts to develop a repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada will be discussed on Wednesday in Las Vegas.

The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board’s Panel on the Waste Management System will meet in Salt Lake City, Utah on Wednesday, October 13, and Thursday, October 14, 2004. The panel will discuss issues related to planning for the potential transportation of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste to a proposed repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.

The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board will meet in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Monday, September 20, 2004. The primary focus of the meeting will be an overview of the purpose, scope, methodology, criteria, and modeling of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Total System Performance Assessment (TSPA) of the Yucca Mountain site.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, May 18 and 19, 2004, the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (Board) will hold its spring meeting in Washington, D.C. The meeting will focus on research and views on the potential for corrosion of waste packages during the “thermal pulse,” the period of approximately 1,000 years after closure when temperatures would be above boiling inside a repository for high-level radioactive waste planned for Yucca Mountain in Nevada.