This Week

Here are some events related to defense and civilian matters that the Exchange Monitor staff is tracking this week:

January:

25: Savannah River Site Citizens Advisory Board. Meeting. 9 a.m. Eastern Time at Aiken, S.C. Municipal Building. Hybrid in-person and virtual, steaming on YouTube. 

25: Secretary of Energy Advisory Board. Meeting. 9:30 a.m. Eastern time. Streaming online at DOE’s website. Registration required.

26: West Valley Demonstration Project’s Citizen Task Force. Organizational meeting for 2022. Streaming on Zoom at 6:30 p.m. Eastern Time. To register, contact Bill Logue (Bill@LogueGroup.com).

27: Nuclear Regulatory Commission virtual meeting: Strategic Programmatic Overview of the Decommissioning and Low-Level Waste and Nuclear Materials Users Business Lines. 9:00 a.m. Eastern time. Webcast online at NRC.gov.

27: Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management and N3B Lost Alamos, virtual meeting. Environmental cleanup at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Streaming online via WebEx.

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