Senior D.O.E. Official to Highlight DOE's Efforts to Advance the Yucca Mountain Plan

Category: Radiation/Nuclear
Type: Media Advisories
Source: US Department of Energy
Date: Friday, February 15th, 2008

WASHINGTON, DC - On Monday, February 18, 2008, D.O.E. (DOE) Director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management Ward Sproat will deliver remarks on the Yucca Mountain Plan during the Countrywide Association of Regulatory Utility Commissions Yearly Winter Meeting. Director Sproat is expected to update the commissioners and attendees on Yucca Mountain plan priorities for 2008.

Yucca Mountain was approved by the Congress and President Bush as the location for the Nation's 1st permanent spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste geologic repository in 2002.

WHO:	Director of DOE's Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management Ward Sproat
WHAT:	Deliver remarks on the Yucca Mountain Plan
WHEN:	Monday, February 18, 2008 10:30AM EDT
WHERE:	Renaissance Washington Hotel Grand Ballroom Central 999 Ninth Street NW Washington, DC

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