Deep Isolation will attend The 5th Annual ECA Forum. The meeting is part of ECA’s ongoing New Nuclear Initiative to define the role of local governments in supporting the development of the new nuclear technologies.

Deep Isolation will attend The 23rd Annual Energy Infrastructure CEO & Investor Conference (EIC), the premier gathering for energy industry leaders and investors. Known for its dynamic content and influential attendees, EIC unites senior executives from public and private companies, private equity, institutional and retail investors, analysts, bankers, consultants, and legal and accounting experts.

Deep Isolation will attend the Bank of America - Power Conference. Rod Baltzer, CEO is confirmed to present.

Deep Isolation will attend StoneX Natural Resources Summit, which will explore key trends shaping the future of natural resources, including: Energy Transition, Critical Minerals/Metals & Power; Industrial and Precious Metals; and Global Supply, Demand, and Trade Flows.

Deep Isolation will attend EnerCom Denver, the largest independent investor conference for the oil, gas, and broader energy industries. The event attracts energy companies, investors, and professionals focused on capital markets and industry innovation.

The award under the ARPA-E SCALEUP Ready programme will enable full-scale field testing of Deep Isolation’s Universal Canister System.

Deep Isolation Nuclear, Inc. is using the 2026 ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit in San Diego to publicly debut its full-scale Universal Canister System (UCS) prototype, positioning the company’s borehole-based solution as a potential standard for long-term nuclear waste management. 

Deep Isolation Nuclear has been selected for the U.S. Department of Energy’s ARPA-E SCALEUP Ready program, positioning the company to move its Universal Canister System from development into commercial deployment as an integrated nuclear waste management solution. 

SCALEUP program to support commercial pilot of Universal Canister System and deep borehole disposal in Texas.

Newer nuclear fission reactors offer greater safety and employ cutting-edge technologies, far different from those used just a few decades ago, but the problem of nuclear waste remains.Various solutions have been considered, and the United States is one of the countries that has experimented most in this regard. As always, the private sector is leading ...

Nuclear waste streams are compatible with deep borehole disposal.

Deep Isolation has completed additional engineering and modeling work in coordination with ARPA-E and Oklo to “enhance key technologies supporting the recycling of used nuclear fuel through electrorefining”. The study models high-level waste being disposed in Deep Isolation’s borehole system, achieving long-term safety levels surpassing model targets.

High-level waste, when disposed of in Deep Isolation’s deep borehole system, achieved long-term safety levels.

In the Optimizing Nuclear Waste and Advanced Reactor Disposal Systems (ONWARDS) project titled Enabling the Near Term Commercialization of an Electrorefining Facility to Close the Metal Fuel Cycle, Deep Isolation said the analysis “confirmed that nuclear waste streams partitioned through the Argonne-baseline electrorefining process are compatible with deep borehole disposal, demonstrating a safe and practical ...

Waste disposal technology company Deep Isolation Nuclear has claimed that results of a study it conducted with reactor developer Oklo demonstrate that deep borehole disposal could be an option for disposing of high-level radioactive waste generated from the recycling of advanced reactor fuel.

Study results show that deep borehole disposal could be a viable option for disposing of high-level radioactive waste.

US nuclear waste disposal company Deep Isolation Nuclear Inc announced that federally funded research has shown that deep borehole disposal could be a viable option for disposing of high-level radioactive waste from advanced reactor fuel recycling.

Under standard definitions, the major forms of energy considered to be renewable include solar, wind, hydropower, geothermal, biomass, along with other forms like ocean energy from tides and waves. These energy sources are replenished naturally on a human timescale and are used to generate electricity, heat and biofuels. Although nuclear energy is not formally classified ...

While there was certainly phenomenal news to report on from every corner of the nuclear industry, both in the U.S. and abroad, there was an overabundance of headlines from the nuclear fuel chain, specifically on the topic of used nuclear fuel. We now have more companies looking into how best to utilize the energy stored ...

Deep Isolation has launched a major multi-year demonstration program aimed at changing how nuclear waste is managed and safely isolated for the long term. The initiative focuses on proving the effectiveness of deep borehole disposal, a method designed to place nuclear waste far underground in stable rock formations, away from people and the environment.

Nuclear waste technology company Deep Isolation Nuclear has launched a multiyear demonstration program of its deep borehole technology for disposing of nuclear waste. The full-scale, at-depth deep borehole demonstration program is being done in collaboration with Halliburton, Amentum, NAC International, and Occlusion Nuclear Solutions, along with the Deep Borehole Demonstration Center (DBDC).

Deep Isolation’s Universal Canister System is engineered to contain various types of spent fuel and high-level radioactive waste.

The demonstration aims to build stakeholder confidence and advance the commercialisation of a permanent nuclear waste solution.

Deep Isolation launched a multi-year full-scale demonstration program this week for its nuclear waste disposal technology. A groundbreaking ceremony was held Jan. 28 at the Deep Borehole Demonstration, located at the Haliburton Drilling Technology Facility near Cameron, Texas. Deep Isolation said stakeholders across the nuclear industry, Texas state officials and Department of Energy representatives attended.

Deep Isolation completed a two-year research initiative regarding its nuclear disposal methods.

US-based nuclear waste disposal technology company Deep Isolation announced the completion of Project SAVANT, an effort aimed at advancing deep borehole disposal for nuclear waste. Positioning deep boreholes as a viable alternative for nuclear waste disposal, Deep Isolation has become the first company to actively develop and test this approach. The company has launched a ...

Given the avalanche of headlines we were faced with covering this cycle, we wonder if any of the professionals in the nuclear industry took even a minute off over the recent holidays… Excessive amounts of good news is a phenomenal problem to have. For today’s issue, we run through a long list of developments, including ...

US-based nuclear waste storage and disposal company Deep Isolation has completed its Project SAVANT (Sequential Advancement of Technology for Deep Borehole Disposal), a two-year research initiative funded by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E). The technology will now be prepared for a demonstration of full-scale disposal.

Deep Isolation has recently completed a two-year research demonstration project that was funded by the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy. Through Project Sequential Advancement of Technology for Deep Borehole Disposal (Project SAVANT), Deep Isolation found that its Universal Center System and borehole casing materials can properly resist corrosion to store spent nuclear fuel, according to ...

US nuclear waste disposal company Deep Isolation says that a two-year research project that subjected its Universal Canister System to the kinds of conditions found thousands of feet below the surface has shown materials used in its fabrication perform reliably and remain resistant to corrosion over time.

Deep Isolation Nuclear, an innovator in nuclear waste disposal technology, on January 13 said the company has successfully completed its Project SAVANT (Sequential Advancement of Technology for Deep Borehole Disposal), a two-year research initiative funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E). The project found that Deep Isolation’s Universal Canister System ...

As the energy industry looks to step up co-location of data centers and power sources, a company developing a new nuclear waste disposal technology is hoping to do the same thing.

Following its establishment in April 2025, the NEA project on Waste Integration for Small and Advanced Reactor Designs (WISARD) held its first technical workshop in Washington, DC, on 4-6 November 2025. The workshop was hosted by the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), one of the WISARD signatory organisations, and included an open session dedicated to discussions ...

The ARPA‑E‑funded project involved testing a universal canister for advanced reactor used fuel and high‑level waste in multiple repository types.

Deep Isolation said Wednesday it has completed a three-year-long Department of Energy-funded project that advances the company’s Universal Canister System technology for nuclear waste disposal.

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 waste disposal technology company Deep Isolation Nuclear has announced the completion of a three-year project to manufacture, physically test, and validate a disposal-ready universal canister system (UCS) for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste from advanced reactors.

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 ...

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.

An American company will soon embark on a full-scale test to drill a borehole to store canisters of rad waste deep underground.

The nuclear waste disposal startup Deep Isolation has struck a deal with Navarro Research and Engineering, a major federal contractor, to license its technology for storing radioactive material in deep bore holes, Latitude Media has learned.

A tiny uranium pellet the size of a gummy bear holds energy matching 140 oil barrels. It’s humanity’s most environmentally friendly, secure power resource. So what’s preventing universal nuclear implementation? We smothered brilliance with bureaucracy. But now, regulation is finally becoming a solved problem.

The new generation of US nuclear reactors faces a familiar question: What happens to the nuclear waste? Deep Isolation is a Berkeley, CA-based company developing a borehole-based long-term storage solution for spent nuclear fuel and radioactive material. Last week, it announced a $33M round of funding from private investors. 

Deep Isolation announced Thursday it is moving to become a public company and merge with Aspen-1 Acquisition. The Berkeley, Calif. based nuclear disposal technology company has closed a reverse merger transaction with the U.S.-based blank check company Aspen-1 Acquisition, according to Deep Isolation’s Thursday press release.

Berkeley-based Deep Isolation Nuclear Inc. raised $33 million through a private placement to further its nuclear waste storage technology. Before the new funding, the company had raised $26.1 million over six rounds. The company is developing a system that utilizes oil and gas fracking techniques to store spent nuclear fuel deep underground, and the funding ...

With a new generation of reactor technologies on the cusp of commercial deployment a new regulatory-ready, globally deployable canister solution is essential to keep pace. 

The U.S. nuclear industry is gearing up for a major shift in how it handles radioactive waste, introducing a new strategy aimed at finally breaking decades of policy and regulatory stalemate. The U.S. Nuclear Industry Council (USNIC) has rolled out an Action Plan designed to modernize the sector’s approach and align with broader federal goals ...

The U.S. nuclear industry carries over $40 billion in stranded liabilities from spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level waste (HLW), locked in temporary storage due to the failure of conventional disposal solutions like the Yucca Mountain repository. For decades, this unresolved problem has hindered nuclear energy’s growth, even as advanced reactors promise to decarbonize industries ...

California-based Deep Isolation has praised the U.S. Nuclear Industry Council for its plan to address nuclear waste disposal policy in the United States, including establishment of an independent body outside the Department of Energy. 

While managing spent fuel from current commercial reactors is a major concern for nuclear engineers today, one question remains about nuclear energy, SMRs, and next-gen reactors: where does spent fuel go long term? Rod Baltzer from Deep Isolation explores how spent fuel can be placed about a mile below the surface into deep boreholes using ...

Nuclear waste disposal is often seen as a political hurdle, but what if technology could revolutionize how we think about nuclear waste products? Rod Baltzer of Deep Isolation reveals how advanced directional drilling techniques—refined over decades by the oil & gas industry—offer a modular, cost-effective solution to safely bury spent nuclear fuel deep underground. This ...

This episode of The Green Insider featured an interview with Rod Baltzer, President and CEO of Deep Isolation, who discussed the company’s innovative approach to nuclear waste disposal using horizontal drilling techniques. Rod explained Deep Isolation’s solution for spent nuclear fuel disposal and their global consultancy work in nuclear decommissioning and waste management, highlighting projects ...

Join us for an insightful conversation with Rod Baltzer, Chief Executive Officer of Deep Isolation, as he shares how the industry is rethinking long-term disposal and how Deep Isolation are disrupting traditional approaches to managing nuclear waste.

What if the key to unlocking nuclear energy’s future has been buried all along? In this episode of Green Giants: Titans of Renewable Energy, host Wes Ashworth dives into one of the most overlooked and misunderstood challenges of the clean energy transition: nuclear waste disposal. His guest, Rod Baltzer, is a 25-year veteran of the ...

Deep isolation works with government waste management programs to reduce the liability of growing nuclear waste inventories. The company has designed and developed a directional borehole disposal solution that meets strict safety standards and tailor the concept to the waste form, available geology options and specific needs such as footprint allowances. View the PDF presentation.

What if the solution to America’s 70-year nuclear waste problem was hiding in plain sight? Rod Baltzer, CEO of Deep Isolation, joins Tim Montague to reveal how his company plans to revolutionize nuclear waste storage using existing oil and gas drilling technology. 

CEO Rod Baltzer appeared live on Bloomberg’s Open Interest. The segment aired on Bloomberg Television and streamed online at bloomberg.com/live/us.

On June 25, CEO Rod Baltzer discussed how Deep Isolation’s breakthrough technology is addressing one of nuclear energy’s most urgent and unresolved challenges: permanent waste disposal.

CEO Rod Baltzer appeared on Bloomberg May 23 to discuss Deep Isolation’s technology and why it matters amid rising interest in nuclear energy.

Leonardo Da Vinci said that “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” Could that also be the case with nuclear energy? Jack invites Deep Fission CEO Liz Muller to the Power Hour this week to discuss a reactor whose utility is defined by its elegance of design. Jack and Liz talk about nuclear economics, the waste issue and its ...

Rod Baltzer, the CEO of Deep Isolation, visited the Atomic Show to discuss how Deep Isolation is revolutionizing nuclear waste disposal with a proven, science-backed approach that leverages deep borehole technology — a method that is not only widely accepted by experts but also cost-effective and scalable.

Deep Isolation Nuclear, Inc. (“Deep Isolation” or the “Company”), a leading innovator in nuclear waste disposal technology, today announced it was selected for the U.S. Department of Energy’s ARPA-E SCALEUP Ready program, supporting the commercial deployment of its Universal Canister System (UCS) for integrated nuclear waste management. SCALEUP Ready is ARPA-E’s latest initiative to accelerate technologies toward market adoption and committed up to $40 million to support two projects, including the Deep Isolation project.

Deep Isolation Nuclear, Inc. (“Deep Isolation” or the “Company”), a leading innovator in nuclear waste disposal technology, today announced that it will exhibit its full-size Universal Canister System (UCS) prototype at Booth 401 during the 2026 ARPA E Energy Innovation Summit in San Diego, California, April 7-9. The Company will also participate in a technology demonstration showcase on Tuesday, April 7, highlighting how the UCS supports safe, scalable, and flexible disposal of spent nuclear fuel from advanced reactors.

Deep Isolation Nuclear, Inc. (“Deep Isolation” or the “Company”), a leading innovator in nuclear waste disposal technology, today announced the successful completion of its work under the Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA E) Optimizing Nuclear Waste and Advanced Reactor Disposal Systems (ONWARDS) project titled “Enabling the Near Term Commercialization of an Electrorefining Facility to Close the Metal Fuel Cycle.” The project, led by Oklo Inc. (NYSE: OKLO), aimed to enhance key technologies supporting the recycling of used nuclear fuel through electrorefining.

Deep Isolation Nuclear, Inc. (“Deep Isolation” or the “Company”), a leading innovator in nuclear waste disposal technology, will share insights on the deployment readiness of its Universal Canister System and the global advancement of deep borehole disposal technology at the 52nd Annual Waste Management Symposia (WM2026).

Deep Isolation Nuclear, Inc. (“Deep Isolation” or the “Company”), a leading innovator in nuclear waste disposal technology, today announced the appointment of Matthew Sunseri to its Advisory Board as the Company advances its deep borehole demonstration program. Mr. Sunseri brings deep expertise in nuclear safety, regulatory engagement, organizational performance, and enterprise risk management to advanced nuclear and waste management initiatives.

Deep Isolation Nuclear, Inc. (“Deep Isolation” or the “Company”), a leading innovator in nuclear waste disposal technology, today announced the appointment of Joseph Nelson as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Nelson brings over two decades of financial leadership, including raising billions in financing, executing multiple M&A transactions, and driving corporate growth in the energy sector, further strengthening Deep Isolation’s executive leadership as it advances toward commercialization.

Deep Isolation Nuclear, Inc. (“Deep Isolation” or the “Company”), a leading innovator in nuclear waste disposal technology, today announced the appointment of Paula Whitten-Doolin as the Company's General Counsel, effective immediately.

Deep Isolation Nuclear, Inc. (“Deep Isolation”), a leading innovator in nuclear waste disposal technology, today announced the launch of its multi-year, full-scale, at-depth deep borehole demonstration program (the “Demonstration Program”), in collaboration with the Deep Borehole Demonstration Center (“DBDC”), Halliburton (NYSE: HAL), Amentum (NYSE: AMTM), NAC International, and Occlusion Nuclear Solutions, to conduct testing of its deep borehole technology for safely and permanently disposing of nuclear waste.

Deep Isolation Nuclear, Inc. (“Deep Isolation” or the “Company”), a leading innovator in nuclear waste disposal technology, today announced the appointment of Ralph L. Hunter to the Company’s Board of Directors, effective immediately.

Deep Isolation Nuclear, Inc. (“Deep Isolation” or the “Company”), a leading innovator in nuclear waste disposal technology, today announced the successful completion of Project SAVANT (Sequential Advancement of Technology for Deep Borehole Disposal), a two-year research initiative funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E). The project found that Deep Isolation’s Universal Canister System (UCS) and borehole casing materials can sufficiently resist corrosion to safely store nuclear waste material, further validating the design and advancing the Company toward a full-scale deep borehole disposal demonstration.