“Taxpayers bleed billions while federal government mulls what to do with millions of pounds of radioactive spent fuel. Among geologists, there are givens: Humans don’t build things that last a million years. And only the bowels of Earth itself can be trusted to swallow — forever — the radioactive nuclear waste that humans have created.”

Jack and Pauk Talk with Sam Brinton about the economics and politics of nuclear waste. Bedies working on nuclear issues with Deep Isolation, Brinton is also the head of advocacy and government affairs at the Trevor Project where they advance policies to help LGBTQ youth in crisis.

Today’s guest is Dr. Richard Muller, who is the current CTO of Deep Isolation, a company which aims to solve the nuclear waste issue. He is a professor Emeritus of Physics at UC Berkeley. 

“This is secure, safe and backed by sound science,” Chief Operating Officer Rod Baltzer said Wednesday at a RadWaste Summit panel in Henderson. “We do think it’s time to consider alternatives,” he told conference attendees. “This is a problem that just keeps growing.”

Chief Operating Officer Rod Baltzer Introduces the Deep Isolation Solution on September 4, 2019, at the Annual Radwaste Summit in Henderson, Nevada

Taking a page from Silicon Valley, the startup company Deep Isolation hopes to fast-track a new nuclear waste storage and disposal technology. A subscription is required to read this publication.

Jessica Sondgeroth reports on California-based Deep Isolation, in partnership with Bechtel, believes that as a private-sector venture it can do better than the government in persuading local communities about the benefits of the approach. Adding the company would have to show that the geological formations selected for drillholes “have been isolated for millions of years.”

Liz Muller made an encore appearance on CEO Money, hosted by Michael Yorba on August, 7th 2019 to discuss Deep Isolation’s innovative approach to solving the nuclear waste problem. Liz gave updates on the company’s technological demonstration at the beginning of the year, as well as the company’s new MOU with Bechtel.

John Vidal reports on the race to develop new strategies for permanently storing some of the most dangerous waste on the planet, originally reported in Ensia.

Chief Operating Officer Rod Baltzer Introduces the Deep Isolation Solution on September 4, 2019, at the Annual Radwaste Summit in Henderson, Nevada Henderson, NV – Deep Isolation, a leading innovator in nuclear waste storage and disposal solutions, will be featured at the Radwaste Summit in Henderson, Nevada, September 3-5, 2019. Chief Operating Officer, Rod Baltzer will present

Berkeley, CA – Deep Isolation, Inc., a leading innovator in nuclear waste disposal solutions, and Bechtel National, Inc., part of the largest engineering and construction company in the U.S., have announced a cooperative agreement on sales, product development, and the deployment of Deep Isolation’s patented technology. The Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) strengthens the relationship between

Company will Present Multiple Papers at the 2019 International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management in Knoxville, Tennessee  Berkeley, CA – Deep Isolation, a leading innovator in nuclear waste disposal solutions, announces the publication of its paper, “Thermal evolution near heat-generating nuclear waste canisters disposed in horizontal drillholes” in Energies, a peer-reviewed open-access journal of energy-related scientific research, technology development,