UNLV to host talk on Yucca Mountain

Thursday, March 7, 2002 | 9:30 a.m.

Two experts on nuclear waste repository design and licensing will speak from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Dan Kane of the Department of Energy's Yucca Mountain Project will speak on the current repository design for the Yucca Mountain site, 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. President Bush recommended the site as the nation's nuclear waste repository on Feb. 15.

Bob Latta, the on-site representative of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the agency that will review any application the DOE submits for building a repository, will explain how Yucca Mountain will be reviewed for a license.

The presentation is scheduled for the Marjorie Barrick Museum Auditorium near the Lied Library.

The session is free and open to the public. The Yucca Mountain Education Project is an effort by interested UNLV faculty and staff to create a balanced information resource for the general public on high-level radioactive waste repositories.

The goal of the project is to present positive and negative aspects of the proposed dump.