Project UPWARDS has culminated in the manufacture, physical testing and validation of a disposal-ready Universal Canister System for used nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste from advanced reactors.

Nuclear power is back, largely due to the skyrocketing demand for electricity, including big tech’s hundreds of artificial intelligence data centers across the country and the reshoring of manufacturing. But it returns with an old and still-unsolved problem: storing all of the radioactive waste created as a byproduct of nuclear power generation.

The Nuclear Waste Fund – which we all paid into – keeps growing. But so do costs, even as America creeps very slowly toward any waste solution.

Nuclear waste disposal technology company Deep Isolation is asking that the National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO) consider how spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste will be managed under its strategy for developing advanced nuclear power projects in participating states.

Nuclear waste disposal technology company Deep Isolation has called on 11 “first mover” US states to work with communities to accelerate innovative disposal technologies, launch near-term demonstrations and mobilise private investment in a bid to find a safe, permanent waste solution for the nation’s growing stockpile of spent nuclear fuel.

US radioactive waste disposal technology developer Deep Isolation has called for nuclear waste disposal to be included in the National Association of State Energy Officials’ Advanced Nuclear First Movers Orderbook Strategy.

As we continue to agonize over the fate of highly radioactive nuclear waste — and local cities throw their weight behind an effort to move San Onofre’s to higher ground on Camp Pendleton — we’d like to call your attention to baby steps toward an actual long-term solution that provides glimmers of hope.

 As required by Sweden’s Nuclear Technology Act, Swe-den’s spent fuel management company, Svensk Kärbräns-lehantering AB (SKB), recently submitted a new cost esti-mate to Sweden’s National Debt Office that reports the re-maining costs for the Swedish nuclear waste program. SKB announced September 30 that the remaining future cost of the management spent fuel and radioactive waste from nu-clear power will be SEK 151 billion (US$16.1 billion), which includes uncertainties and future price developments. 

Nuclear waste disposal technology company Deep Isolation Nuclear announced it has signed a technology licensing agreement with government contractor Navarro Research and Engineering, giving Navarro access to Deep Isolation’s portfolio of intellectual property for use in nuclear and hazardous waste management applications across the states of Tennessee and Idaho.

US-based nuclear waste storage and disposal company Deep Isolation has signed a technology licensing agreement with contractor and environmental service provider Navarro Research and Engineering. The agreement grants Navarro access to Deep Isolation’s portfolio of intellectual property for use in nuclear and hazardous waste management applications across the US states of Tennessee and Idaho.