Past Public Meetings

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board held a meeting on April 11-12, 1989, in Las Vegas, NV.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board held a meeting on March 7-8, 1989, in Washington, DC.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board's spring meeting was held on Wednesday and Thursday, April 19-20, 1995, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Presentations at the meeting focused on the Department of Energy's (DOE) emerging waste isolation strategy, the thermal management strategy being pursued under the DOE's new program approach, and engineered barrier system design and research.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (Board) sponsored a meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, on May 23 and 24, 1995, to discuss how peoples' beliefs about the risks associated with a potential high-level radioactive waste repository at Yucca Mountain might affect the social and economic conditions of the area.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board's (the Board) Panel on Transportation & Systems held a meeting on June 14, 1995, in Arlington, Virginia. The focus of the meeting was system safety and human factors engineering for the Department of Energy's (DOE) civilian radioactive waste management program and its site-characterization efforts at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board's (the Board) Panel on Hydrogeology & Geochemistry met on June 26 and 27, 1995, near San Francisco to examine ground-water flow and potential radionuclide transport in arid regions, including the Negev Desert in Israel.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board placed siting critical facilities at the top of the agenda for its spring meeting on April 11-12, 1994, in Reno, Nevada.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (Board) set its spring meeting for April 30 and May 1, 1996, in Austin, Texas. The Board explored the rationale underlying the OCRWM program, which has been revised in light of funding constraints. OCRWM presenters provided a broad outline of recent programmatic changes, especially those related to site characterization and repository development.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (the Board) held its summer meeting on July 9-10, 1996, in Denver, Colorado. The meeting focused on two main issues: exploration and testing activities at Yucca Mountain, and past and future climates and hydrology at Yucca Mountain.

At the Board's fall meeting, October 9-10, 1996, in Arlington, Virginia, Dr. Daniel Dreyfus, director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM), provided the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board’s (the Board) with an overview of OCRWM’s fiscal year 1997 activities, and how those activities drove a decision in 1998 on whether or not the DOE views Yucca Mountain as a viable site for a repository.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board's Panel on Structural Geology & Geoengineering (SG&G) planned a two-day meeting on seismic and volcanic hazard estimation for March 8-9, 1994.

At the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board's (the Board) fall meeting on October 19-20, 1993, in Las Vegas, Nevada, Board members reviewed the progress of the Department of Energy's (DOE) surface-based drilling program and plans for underground testing at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (the Board) held its spring meeting in Reno, Nevada, on April 21-22, 1993. The Board was interested in reviewing the process through which difficult technical issues bearing on site-suitability and licensing are resolved.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board's (the Board) Panel on Structural Geology & Geoengineering held a workshop on ESF design and construction strategies in Las Vegas, Nevada on November 4-5, 1992. The workshop focused on alternative design and construction strategies for the proposed exploratory studies facility (ESF) at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (the Board) held its fall meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, on October 14 and 15, 1992. The Board meeting, addressed two issues: the source term and the fiscal year 1993 budget for the Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Project Office.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board's (the Board) Panel on Structural Geology & Geoengineering held a meeting and field trip on September 14 - 16, 1992, on volcanic hazard and the associated vulnerabilities of the proposed high-level waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board's Panel on the Engineered Barrier System (EBS Panel) held a meeting on Monday, May 11, 1992, on the defense high-level waste management plans and operations at the DOE's Hanford, Washington, facilities.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board's Panel on the Engineered Barrier System (EBS Panel)held a meeting on Wednesday, May 13, 1992. The meeting focused on the high-level waste management operations and plans at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL).

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (the Board) 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 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.