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 ...

Editor’s note: This is an excerpt of an article that was originally published in the March edition of Nuclear Engineering International’s magazine, which is available via a subscription here. You can view our paper, “Implementing Deep Borehole Disposal: Study of International Stakeholder Views from Regulatory, Policy & WMO Communities,” presented at the March Waste Management ...

Since Deep Isolation was founded more than five years ago we’ve sought to assemble an advisory board that includes preeminent experts, Nobel laureates, leaders in nuclear energy science, technology, and policy, and entrepreneurs who value innovation. In addition to those leadership qualities, inclusion and diversity is also important to us as a company. We were ...