Press Releases and Announcements

On Tuesday, January 30, 2001, and Wednesday, January 31, 2001, the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (Board) will return to Amargosa Valley, Nevada, to discuss U.S. Department of Energy efforts to characterize a site at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, as the possible location of a permanent repository for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste.

On Tuesday, August 1, and Wednesday, August 2, 2000, the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (Board) will meet in Carson City, Nevada, to discuss technical and scientific issues related to evaluating a possible site for a repository for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.

On Monday, July 10, 2000, members of the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board’s (Board) Panel on the Waste Management System will meet in Idaho Falls, Idaho, to discuss technical issues related to managing spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste, including human factors involved in transporting such waste.

President Bill Clinton has reappointed three more members of the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board for four-year terms.

President Bill Clinton has reappointed three members of the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board for four-year terms.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (Board) will meet in Pahrump, Nevada, on Monday, May 1, 2000, to review the status of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) efforts to develop a design for a potential repository for disposing of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.

On Tuesday, January 25, and Wednesday, January 26, 2000, the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (Board) will meet in Las Vegas, Nevada, to discuss the sources and types of technical and scientific uncertainty associated with an assessment of the performance of a potential Yucca Mountain repository and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) proposed safety strategy for such a repository.

President Bill Clinton has reappointed Jared L. Cohon chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (Board) for a four-year term.

President Bill Clinton has reappointed three members of the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (Board) for four-year terms.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, June 29 and 30, 1999, the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (Board) will meet in Beatty, Nevada, to review the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) analysis comparing possible repository designs and to hear reports on the status of scientific studies related to the characterization of a potential repository site at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.

On January 25, 1999, members of the Panel on the Repository, Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (Board), will meet to discuss the process for evaluating alternative repository designs and selecting license application designs (LADS). On Tuesday, January 26, and Wednesday, January 27, the members of the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (Board) will hold a full board meeting to review the DOE’s viability assessment (VA).

The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board released a report offering its views about the scientific and technical objectives and priorities of research under way and planned by the Department of Energy (DOE) as part of its program for characterizing a site at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, as a potential repository for spent fuel and high-level radioactive waste.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board has released its review of 11 reports submitted in January 1997 by Mr. Jerry Szymanski concerning ongoing, intermittent hydrothermal activity and large earthquake-induced changes in the water table at Yucca Mountain.

President Bill Clinton has appointed Dr. Donald Runnells to the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (the Board), completing the eleven-member Board that evaluates the scientific and technical validity of the nation’s commercial spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste disposal program.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board will hold its summer meeting June 24, 1998, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board will host a workshop addressing waste package alternative designs and research needs on May 18-19, 1998, in Falls Church, Virginia.

In a report released today, the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (the Board) details its 1997 activities and offers recommendations related to the Department of Energy’s (DOE) program to manage and dispose of the nation’s spent fuel and high-level radioactive waste.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board’s Panel on Performance Assessment (Panel) will examine the Department of Energy’s (DOE) total system performance assessment for the viability assessment (TSPA-VA) April 23-24, 1998, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board will return to Amargosa Valley, Nevada, January 20-21, 1998, to hold a public meeting on the Yucca Mountain project. The focus of the meeting will be the thermal testing program and saturated zone modeling for Yucca Mountain, and public comments on the Board’s activities under the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA).

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board’s Panel on the Repository met December 17, 1997, beginning at 8:30 a.m. in Augusta, Georgia. Panel members were briefed on high-level waste forms, other than commercial spent nuclear fuel, that could be disposed of in a deep geologic repository.