Records, 1977-1994.

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Records, 1977-1994.

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Records of the Radioactive Waste Review Board (RWRB), the agency responsible for representing Wisconsin before the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and related boards and committees, in matters relating to the disposal of high-level radioactive waste and other siting issues. The records document the board's activities, communications, and publications. Included is incoming and outgoing correspondence of Executive director Jim Kleinhans and Chairman Joseph Strohl, and video and audio recordings of briefings and public hearings related to DOE's plans, as part of the Crystalline Repository Project, to store nuclear waste in northern Wisconsin. The processed portion of this series is summarized above, dates 1982-1989, and is described in the register. There are additional accessions dating 1977-1994 which are described below.

2.4 c.f. (2 record center cartons and 1 archives box),50 tape recordings,13 photographs (1 folder),110 negatives on 27 negative strips (1 folder), and7 videorecordings; plusadditions of 7.0 c.f.

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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United States. Department of Energy

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The Department of Energy (DOE) is a Cabinet-level department of the United States Government responsible for energy policy and nuclear safety. Its purview includes the nation's nuclear weapons program, nuclear reactor production for the United States Navy, energy conservation, energy-related research, radioactive waste disposal, and domestic energy production, many of which are funded through its system of national laboratories. Many Federal agencies had been established to handle various aspect...

Wisconsin. Radioactive Waste Review Board

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The Radioactive Waste Review Board was created by the Wisconsin Legislature in 1981 (Wis. Stats. 15.915(4) and 36.50) in response to the U.S. Dept. of Energy's activities in granite states. The board was responsible for representing the State of Wisconsin in all activities with the Dept. of Energy and it was authorized to enter into written agreements covering siting activities. It was abolished in 1996 and its responsibilities were assumed by the Division of Energy and Intergovernmental Relatio...