Press Release-08-116, DOE to Walk Through Its Yucca Mountain Application in Public Meeting June 19-20 in Rockville, MD

Press Release-08-116: DOE to Walk Through Its Yucca Mountain Application in Public Meeting June 19-20 in Rockville, MD

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Issue date:	06/16/2008
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NRC NEWS U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Office of Public Affairs Telephone: 301/415-8200 Washington, D.C. 20555-0001 E-mail: opa@nrc.gov Site: http://www.nrc.gov No.08-116 June 16, 2008 DOE TO WALK THROUGH ITS YUCCA MOUNTAIN APPLICATION IN PUBLIC MEETING JUNE 19-20 IN ROCKVILLE, MD.

Officials from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will present a walk-through of DOEs license application for the proposed high-level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nev., for Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff during a public meeting June 19-20 at NRC headquarters in Rockville, Md.

DOE submitted the license application June 3. The NRC staff is currently conducting its docketing review of the application, to determine whether the application is sufficiently complete to warrant docketing it and beginning a full technical safety review. During the public walk-through, DOE officials will explain the layout and organization of the application, which totals more than 8,600 pages.

The meeting will be held in the NRC Auditorium in Two White Flint North, 11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Md.. from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time each day. Both sessions will be viewable by videoconference at the NRCs Las Vegas Hearing Facility, Pacific Enterprise Plaza, Building 1, 3250 Pepper Lane in Las Vegas, and at the Center for Nuclear Waste Regulatory Analyses, Conference Room A103, Building 189, 6220 Culebra Rd., San Antonio, Texas.

Members of the media wishing to attend, either in Rockville or Las Vegas, are urged to register by June 18 with the NRC Office of Public Affairs at (301) 415-8200, in order to facilitate security check-in for the meetings.

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