Former U.S. Sen. Richard H. Bryan, who also served as Nevada's governor, will be the featured speaker at the next UNLV Yucca Mountain Education Project town hall meeting, which is set for Oct. 19 on the UNLV campus.

The topic of the meeting will be "Yucca Mountain History Selection Process/ Pre-1987 History." During his talk, Bryan will provide the audience with his insights and opinions regarding the political processes involved in the decision to study Yucca Mountain as the proposed site to store the nation's high-level nuclear waste.

Bryan's talk will be followed by a question-and-answer session that will be open to audience participation.

The meeting, which is free and open to the public, will be held 6-8 p.m. in the Classroom Building Complex, Room A-106. To reserve a spot for the meeting and to obtain a parking permit, call UNLV's Division of Continuing Education at 895-3394.

The meeting is being cosponsored by UNLV's departments of sociology and anthropology, the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Natural History, the Harry Reid Center for Environmental Studies, and the Yucca Mountain Education Project (YMEP).

Brad Eden, coordinator of the YMEP, said, "The UNLV Yucca Mountain Education Project 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."