Press Releases and Announcements

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (the Board) has 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 has 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 meeting has been scheduled for March 10 and 11, 1992, and will be held at the Board's Arlington, Virginia, offices.

As part of its congressional mandate to independently review the Department of Energy's (DOE) program to manage the disposal of civilian spent nuclear fuel, the NWTRB's Panel on the Engineered Barrier System has scheduled a meeting for February 10, 1992, in Augusta, Georgia.

The Hyatt Regency Hotel in Irvine, California, will be 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) will meet 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. Dr. John Bartlett, director of OCRWM, and associate directors and staff have been invited to participate

As part of its congressional mandate to independently review the Department of Energy's (DOE) civilian high-level radioactive waste management program, the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board's Panel on Structural Geology & Geoengineering scheduled a meeting with representatives of the DOE and its contractors for November 12 and 13, 1991, in Seattle, Washington.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (the Board) has 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 to be held October 8 to 10, 1991, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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, has 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 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, will address 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 (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.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board's (the Board) Panels on Hydrogeology & Geochemistry and Structural Geology & Geoengineering held a joint meeting on the testing methods the Department of Energy (DOE) plans to use during characterization of the site at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Congress directed the DOE to evaluate the site for the possible location of a permanent high-level radioactive waste repository.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board's Panel on Transportation & Systems (T&S Panel) will hold its third public hearing on transportation issues on August 15, 1991, in Denver, Colorado. The purpose of the hearing is to obtain the views of citizens who might be affected by the transportation of spent fuel and defense high-level waste should a permanent respository 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's (the Board) Panel on Risk & Performance Analysis will hold 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) will hold 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. Board members will be briefed on the use of analogues to assess the long-term performance of a potential site for the disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level defense waste.

Two panels of the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (Board) will hold a joint meeting on March 26, 1991, in Dallas, Texas, to review the quality assurance (QA) program that the Department of Energy (DOE) has implemented for the design and construction of an exploratory shaft facility at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board's (NWTRB) Panel on Transportation & Systems will meet March 14-15, 1991, to explore and identify experience gained at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant's (WIPP) transportation program.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board's (Board) panels on Structural Geology & Geoengineering and Hydrogeology & Geochemistry held a joint panel meeting with Department of Energy (DOE) representatives on March 6-7, 1991, in Denver, Colorado.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board's Panel on Structural Geology & Geoengineering (SG&G) has invited organizations including the Department of Energy (DOE), Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), and the State of Nevada to a meeting on volcanism in Tucson, Arizona, on Friday, March 1, 1991.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (NWTRB) has invited Dr. John W. Bartlett, Director of the DOE's Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM), and Mr. David H. Leroy, recently confirmed Nuclear Waste Negotiator, as well as representatives of industry, environmental organizations, public policy groups, and state interests to speak at the Board's meeting on January 16 and 17, 1991, on the disposal of high-level radioactive waste (HLW).