Testing for Site Characterization - Topic of Joint Panel Meeting (May 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.