The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board will meet in late October in Augusta, Ga. to discuss the Department of Energy’s handling of High-Level Nuclear Waste and Spent Nuclear, the NWTRB announced late last week. The Oct. 29 meeting will focus mainly on DOE activities at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. “Topics that will be discussed at the meeting include issues related to storage of DOE SNF at the L Basin at SRS, alternatives for dry storage of DOE SNF at SRS, processing of DOE SNF, andissues related to aging of the facilities involved in these operations,” the NWTRB said in a release. “The Board will also discuss vitrification of HLW and the storage of the vitrified waste, including production rates for HLW canisters and plans for a new vitrified waste storage facility.”
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