The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board meets on Thursday, Aug. 29 near the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina to review DOE’s plans to dispose of spent nuclear fuel.
The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (NWTRB) plans a hybrid in-person/online meeting from the Crowne Plaza Hotel in North Augusta, S.C., the board said recently.
The session will include an update from the DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy on storage, transportation, and disposal research and development activity, according to an NWTRB press release. There will also be an update on DOE’s consent-based siting efforts and commercial interim consolidated storage facilities.
The DOE Office of Environmental Management will also discuss spent fuel work at the Savannah River Site, according to the release.. Likewise, spent fuel programs at DOE’s Idaho National Laboratory are also on the preliminary agenda.
The meeting is slated to run from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. Eastern Time. Instructions on how to join the meeting virtually will be posted on the board’s website a week prior to the event. A detailed agenda will also be posted there around the same time. The board is an executive branch agency created through the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 1987 to address technical issues on management of spent fuel and high-level radioactive waste.