February 15, 2008
Senior DOE Official to Highlight DOE’s Efforts to Advance the Yucca Mountain Project
WASHINGTON, DC – On Monday, February 18, 2008, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management Ward Sproat will deliver remarks on the Yucca Mountain Project during the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissions Annual Winter Meeting. Director Sproat is expected to update the commissioners and attendees on Yucca Mountain program priorities for 2008.
Yucca Mountain was approved by the Congress and President Bush as the site for the Nation’s first permanent spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste geologic repository in 2002.
WHO: |
Director of DOE’s Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management Ward Sproat |
WHAT: |
Deliver remarks on the Yucca Mountain Project |
WHEN: |
Monday, February 18, 2008 10:30AM EDT |
WHERE: |
Renaissance Washington Hotel Grand Ballroom Central 999 Ninth Street NW Washington, DC |
Media
contact(s): Angela Hill, (202) 586-4940
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