"What is Being Done to Protect Nevada: Repository Design and Licensing?" is the topic of the next UNLV Yucca Mountain Education Project town hall meeting, which is set for March 8 on the UNLV campus.

The meeting will explore the various standards and laws that are currently in place or are being discussed to protect the state of Nevada in the event that high-level radioactive waste is placed in a repository at Yucca Mountain.

The featured speakers will be Dan Kane, from the Yucca Mountain Project, who will discuss the current repository design of Yucca Mountain, and Bob Latta, the on-site representative of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, who will discuss the licensing procedure for Yucca Mountain.

The meeting, which is free and open to the public, will be held from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Natural History.

The meeting is being sponsored by the UNLV Yucca Mountain Education Project, which is a multidisciplinary effort by interested faculty and staff of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, to create a balanced information resource for the general public on the subject of the proposed Yucca Mountain high-level radioactive waste disposal site. The goal of the project is to present both positive and negative aspects of the proposed Yucca Mountain high-level radioactive waste repository so that the general public can be informed.

For more information, call Anthony Hechanova at 895-1457.