Past Public Meetings

The Hyatt Regency Hotel in Irvine, California, was 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) met 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.

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. Panel members reviewed the DOE's plans for sealing and backfilling repository boreholes, shafts, tunnels, and underground openings.

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, 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 meeting, addressed the preliminary design of the exploratory studies facility (ESF) and the repository design, and was held in Las Vegas, Nevada, on September 18 and 19, 1991.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board's Panel on Transportation & Systems (T&S Panel) held its third public hearing on transportation issues on August 15, 1991, in Denver, Colorado. The purpose of the hearing was to obtain the views of citizens who might be affected by the transportation of spent fuel and defense high-level waste should a permanent repository 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 (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, addressed 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. Representatives of the Department of Energy (DOE) and DOE contractors briefed panel members on the status of the Management Systems Improvement Strategy (MSIS) currently being implemented by the DOE Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM).

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board's (the Board) Panel on Risk & Performance Analysis held 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's (the Board) Panels on Hydrogeology & Geochemistry and Structural Geology & Geoengineering held a joint meeting from June 25-27, 1991, on the testing methods the Department of Energy (DOE) plans to use during characterization of the site at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.

Two panels of the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (Board) held 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 (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. Panel members reviewed studies crucial to determining the suitability of the site at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, as a possible location for a permanent repository for commercial spent fuel and defense high-level radioactive waste.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board's Panel on Structural Geology & Geoengineering (SG&G) 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. Panel members heard presentations on recent studies related to volcanic hazards in the vicinity of Yucca Mountain, Nevada.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (Board) held 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.

Members of the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board’s Panel on the Natural System met in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Tuesday, March 9, and Wednesday, March 10, 2004. The panel discussed issues related to a proposed repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, particularly how components of the natural geologic system would work together to isolate radioactive waste.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, May 18 and 19, 2004, the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (Board) held its spring meeting in Washington, D.C. The Board invited the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and several other interested parties—including the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), and the State of Nevada—to present their 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.

The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board met in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Monday, September 20, 2004. The primary focus of the meeting was 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.

The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board’s Panel on the Waste Management System met in Salt Lake City, Utah on Wednesday, October 13, and Thursday, October 14, 2004. The panel discussed 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 met 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 were discussed on Wednesday in Las Vegas. The meeting in Caliente on Thursday focused on transportation planning issues and the development of a rail spur from Caliente to the proposed repository site at Yucca Mountain.

The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board met in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Tuesday, November 8, and for a half-day on Wednesday, November 9, 2005. The Board discussed 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.