Deep Isolation CEO Liz Muller is a finalist for EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2022 in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Deep Isolation has launched an online campaign to educate the public about nuclear waste and gain support for solving the issue to protect the environment, increase energy security, and remove a barrier to nuclear energy.

A public-private joint venture to use spent nuclear fuel to power micro reactors received a $4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency — Energy, the agency announced recently. 

Nuclear waste disposal company Deep Isolation has been awarded funding for two projects. The first, in partnership with the University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and NAC International, has been awarded a USD3.6 million grant to develop a universal nuclear waste disposal canister for advanced reactor waste streams.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $36 million for 11 projects seeking to increase the deployment, and use of, nuclear power as a reliable source of clean energy and limit the amount of waste produced from Advanced Nuclear Reactors (AR). Deep Isolation will establish universal performance criteria and a cannister system for minimizing the long-run costs of used fuel and waste management.

Deep Isolation recently completed two studies, one by the Slovenia Radioactive Waste Management Organisation (ARAO) and one by Norwegian Nuclear Decommissioning, showing that deep boreholes could be a less expensive option for nuclear waste from Slovenia’s research reactor and spent fuel from a number of countries’ nuclear power programs.

Deep borehole disposal of nuclear waste is an “important alternative option for us to consider,” Slovenia’s radioactive waste management organisation’s Leon Kegel has said following a preliminary study into solutions for the disposing of used fuel from the TRIGA II research reactor.

The report presents an initial high-level assessment of the viability and costs of using Deep Isolation’s deep borehole technology to dispose of radioactive waste from Croatia, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway and Slovenia.

US-based Deep Isolation, a specialist in used fuel and high-level waste (HLW) storage and disposal solutions, announced that it had acquired Freestone Environmental Services, a multi-discipline environmental and water resources consulting firm based in Richland, Washington.

Deep Isolation, an innovator in spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level nuclear waste (HLW) storage and disposal solutions, has acquired Freestone Environmental Services, a multi-discipline environmental and water resources consulting firm based in Richland, Wash.