I recently made the trip down to Cameron, Texas to join Rod Baltzer and the Deep Isolation team at the Deep Borehole Demonstration Center, where Deep Isolation and its collaborators are conducting a full-scale, nonradioactive demonstration of the company’s deep borehole disposal technology and Universal Canister System. The purpose was to get a group of industry leaders together and take a hard look at the next steps of a technology that could change how we solve one of the nuclear industry’s biggest problems.

We got busy with our heads down making progress and neglected to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Deep Isolation.

As part of one of our international client studies, I’m working on a report deliverable to provide a preliminary environmental and social impact assessment. It’s imperative that a nuclear waste disposal facility has a strong defensible set of analyses that can prove to regulators and the general public that it will perform as designed, and in a safe manner.

Different geologic formations control fluid movement, heat transport, and long-term stability for the safe isolation of nuclear waste.

Learn how the long-term safety of a nuclear waste repository can be ultimately controlled by the natural behavior of the geologic system.

Nuclear energy is an important part of the U.S. energy landscape. What do we do with the nuclear waste? Deep Isolation has the answer.

A look at how deep borehole R&D complements the development of advanced reactors.

By Jessica Chow The rapid growth of nuclear start-ups in the past two decades indicates the changing nuclear industry: an industry in need of innovation. This industry needs fresh perspectives from professionals excited to engage with nuclear technology, especially in the face of the global challenge of climate change.  The nuclear start-up life was the ...

By Dr. Ethan Bates Deep Isolation Director of Systems Engineering Dr. Ethan Bates presented his paper, co-authored with borehole sciences expert John Midgley, titled Features, Events, and Processes Prioritization for Deep Borehole Disposal Concepts in Crystalline Rock and Shale, at the American Nuclear Society Meeting in Anaheim, Calif., earlier this month. We sat down with ...

By Betsy Madru In 2012, the U.S. Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future was formed by the Secretary of Energy to conduct a comprehensive review of policies for managing the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle. One of the Commission’s recommendations was to use consent-based siting approaches to determine a location for a ...