NRC: News Release - 2003-130 - NRC Advisory Committee on Nuclear Waste to Hold October Meeting in Rockville, Maryland

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No. 03-130

October 8, 2003

NRC ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON NUCLEAR WASTE
TO HOLD OCTOBER MEETING IN ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Advisory Committee on Nuclear Waste (ACNW) will hold a meeting from October 21-23 in Rockville, Md. The agenda includes a meeting with the Commission, discussion of the Committee’s upcoming visit to the proposed high-level waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, and discussions with the NRC staff on issues related to pre-closure safety and tunnel degradation at Yucca Mountain. The recent update to the NRC staff’s performance assessment code for Yucca Mountain will also be discussed.

The meeting is open to the public, apart from a session that could be closed to discuss personnel matters. The meeting will be held in Room T-2B3 of the agency’s Two White Flint North Building, at 11545 Rockville Pike, apart from the meeting with the Commission on Oct. 23 at 10 a.m., which will be held in the Commissioner’s Conference Room, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike. The meeting will begin at 10:30 a.m. on Oct. 21, and at 8:30 a.m. on Oct. 22 and 23.

A complete agenda will be available on the NRC web site at this address: http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/acnw/agenda/2003/. For additional information or schedule changes, please contact Howard Larson at 301/415-6805.