Past Public Meetings

The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board held a public meeting in Idaho Falls, Idaho on Wednesday, August 30, 2023, to review information on U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) consent-based siting process activities and its research and development activities related to high burnup spent nuclear fuel and advanced reactor waste disposition.

The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board held an international workshop on Tuesday, August 29, 2023, on siting of radioactive waste facilities.

The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board held a public meeting in Orlando, Florida on Tuesday, March 28, 2023, to review information on U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) efforts related to removing spent nuclear fuel from commercial nuclear power plant sites.

The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board held a hybrid (in-person/virtual) public meeting on Tuesday September 13, 2022, and Wednesday September 14, 2022, to review information on the U.S. Department of Energy’s research and development (R&D) program related to geologic disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste in clay-bearing host rocks and R&D on clay-based engineered barriers.

The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board held a virtual public meeting on Tuesday, March 1, 2022, and Wednesday, March 2, 2022, to review information on the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) activities related to spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW). Specifically, the meeting covered research and development activities on SNF and HLW storage, transportation, non-site-specific disposal, DOE’s integrated waste management system, and its consent-based siting process to identify federal interim storage facilities.

The NWTRB held a virtual public meeting on November 3-4, 2021 to review information on the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) research and development activities related to the geologic disposal safety assessment framework.

The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board held a virtual public meeting on Tuesday, August 24, 2021, to review information on the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) technology development related to aluminum-clad spent nuclear fuel packaging, drying, and dry storage.

The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board held a virtual public meeting on Wednesday, May 12, 2021, and Thursday, May 13, 2021, to discuss advanced nuclear fuels and accident tolerant fuels for light water reactors and the impact of these fuels on spent nuclear fuel management and disposal.

The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board held an online virtual public meeting on Wednesday, December 2, 2020, and Thursday, December 3, 2020, to review information on the U.S. Department of Energy’s generic disposal research and development program and priorities.

The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board held a virtual public meeting on July 27–28, 2020, to review information on U.S. Department of Energy research and development activities related to disposal in a geologic repository of commercial spent nuclear fuel in dual-purpose canisters.

The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board held a public meeting in Alexandria, Virginia, on Tuesday, November 19, 2019, to review information on U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) research and development (R&D) activities to drying, packaging, and dry storage of spent nuclear fuel (SNF), including aluminum-clad SNF related.

The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board held a workshop on Wednesday, April 24, and Thursday, April 25, 2019, on recent advances in repository science and operations from international underground research laboratory (URL) collaborations.

The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board held a meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on October 24, 2018, to review DOE R&D activities related to managing and disposing of commercial spent nuclear fuel.

The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board held a public meeting in Idaho Falls, Idaho, on Wednesday, June 13, 2018. The meeting considered technical issues that needed to be addressed in developing a large, nationwide effort to transport spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).

The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board held a public meeting in the Washington, D.C. area on Tuesday, March 27, 2018. The meeting considered the issues associated with preclosure operational and performance confirmation monitoring and the retrievability of emplaced high-level radioactive waste (HLW) and spent nuclear fuel (SNF). Technical specialists discussed technologies for monitoring subsurface seepage, in-drift environmental conditions, and corrosion of waste packages for HLW and SNF.

The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board held an open public meeting in Richland, Washington, on Wednesday, June 21, 2017, to review information on recent U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) research activities related to corrosion and long-term performance of borosilicate high-level radioactive waste (HLW) glass.

The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board met in Washington, D.C. on August 24, 2016, to review U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) activities related to integrating the management and disposal of the many different designs of canisters for spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW) that are currently in service and under development.

The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board met in Knoxville, Tennessee, on February 17, 2016, to review U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) activities related to extended storage and transportation of high burnup spent nuclear fuel (HBF).

The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board held a two-day workshop to look at issues associated with the design and implementation of a program for deep borehole disposal of solid radioactive wastes. The objective of the workshop was to identify the technical and scientific issues associated with DOE’s research and development program to assess the viability of the deep borehole disposal concept and, more broadly, to identify issues associated with implementation of deep borehole disposal.

The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board met in Golden, Colorado, on June 24, 2015, to review U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) activities related to transporting spent nuclear fuel (SNF). The main focus of the meeting was on DOE’s efforts to prepare for the transportation of SNF from commercial nuclear power plants to a potential interim storage site and/or to a geologic repository.