US NWTRB Provides Key Research, Recommendations to DOE’s Waste Management Work

摘要

The US Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (NWTRB or Board) released a summary report on August 31 titled, Report to the U.S. Congress and the Secretary of Energy that highlights its activities from January 1, 2016 through December 31, 2018. The Board has issued these summary reports periodically since the NWTRB was established in 1989. The Board’s press release noted that “The three years covered by the Report were consequential for the Board and for the U.S. program to manage and dispose of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste.”