Correspondence

Letter to Representative Peter Visclosky on the Board’s plans to focus on DOE’s technical work in preparation for a potential decision in 2001 on whether to recommend the Yucca Mountain site for repository development.

Letter to Representative Ron Packard on the Board’s plans to focus on DOE’s technical work in preparation for a potential decision in 2001 on whether to recommend the Yucca Mountain site for repository development.

Letter to Dr. Ivan Itkin, Director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, on the Board’s August 1-2, 2000, meeting on DOE’s total system performance assessment for site recommendation.

Letter to the Director, Energy, Resources, and Science Issues, GAO, stating that the Board did no review a GAO draft report and that GAO's final report contained misleading statements about Board views on thermal management.

Letter to Dr. Ivan Itkin, Director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, on the Board’s May 1, 2000, meeting on DOE’s efforts to develop a design for a potential Yucca Mountain repository.

Letter from Dr. Ivan Itkin, Director of Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, with DOE’s response to the Board’s March 20, 2000, letter about the Board’s January 25-26, 2000, meeting on uncertainties and DOE’s safety strategy.

Letter to Dr. Ivan Itkin, Director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, stating that meaningful quantification of the uncertainties associated with performance that are clearly and understandably presented is essential.

Letter conveying the Board’s reactions to DOE presentations at the Board’s January 25-26, 2000, meeting on four aspects of uncertainty relating to: repository safety strategy, repository design, scientific studies, and communication.

Letter from Dr. Ivan Itkin, Director of Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, transmitting the Civilian Radioactive Waste Management Program Plan, Revision 3.

Letter to Wendy Dixon, EIS Project Manager, providing the Board’s comments on DOE’s proposed environmental impact statement (EIS) for a geologic repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.

Letter from Dr. Ivan Itkin, Director of Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, with DOE’s response to the Board’s November 10, 1999, letter that addressed the Board’s September 14-15, 1999, meeting.

Letter from the Acting Director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, responding to the Board’s August 3, 1999, letter that addressed the Yucca Mountain Project’s scientific program.

Letter to the Acting Director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management on the Board’s September 1999, meeting that addressed a repository safety strategy, model validation, treatment of uncertainty, modeling results and technical investigations.

Letter from the Acting Director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management with DOE’s response to the Board’s Report to the U.S. Congress and the Secretary of Energy, Moving Beyond the Yucca Mountain Yucca Mountain Viability Assessment.

Letter from the Acting Director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management with DOE’s response to the Board’s Report to the U.S. Congress and the Secretary of Energy, April 1999, summarizing the Board’s 1998 activities.

Letter from the Acting Director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management with DOE’s response to the Board’s July 9, 1999, letter on DOE’s evaluation of alternative repository designs.

Letter to the Acting Director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management on DOE’s scientific program for Yucca Mountain, including testing and analysis undertaken to address uncertainties related to the natural and engineered systems.

Letter to Representative Peter Visclosky from Chairman Dr. Jared Cohon, thanking him for meeting to discuss the Board’s fiscal year 2000 budget request and enclosing the Board’s July 9, 1999, letter to DOE on a cooler repository design.

Letter to Representative Ron Packard from Chairman Dr. Jared Cohon, thanking him for meeting to discuss the Board’s fiscal year 2000 budget request and enclosing the Board’s July 9, 1999, letter to DOE on a cooler repository design.

Letter to the Acting Director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management providing Board comments on DOE’s process for selecting a repository design and suggesting that a lower temperature design would reduce uncertainties.