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Deep Isolation

Press Release, January 7, 2020

Deep Isolation Begins Series A Investment Round

Berkeley, CA – Deep Isolation, a leading innovator in nuclear waste disposal solutions, kicks off its Series A raise on January 7, 2020. The company hopes to secure $10-15 million from venture investors; it already has $5 million of in-kind support committed from strategic partners. “Our next milestone is $50M in global sales,” said Elizabeth

Press Release, November 11, 2019

Deep Isolation Announces Memorandum of Agreement with NAC International Inc.

Berkeley, CA – Deep Isolation, a leading innovator in spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level waste (HLW) storage and disposal solutions, has signed a cooperative agreement with NAC International Inc. (NAC), a leading nuclear fuel cycle consulting and technology solutions company specializing in casks and canister systems for nuclear materials transport and spent fuel storage and disposal.

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Event, January 22-23, 2019

Nuclear Energy Tribal Working Group

Mary Woollen, Director of Stakeholder and Community Engagement will provide an update on Deep Isolation's progress at the Nuclear Energy Tribal Working Group (NETWG) in Arlington, Virginia.

Event, January 26-29, 2020

2020 Health Physics Society Midyear Meeting & Exhibition

Rod Baltzer, CEO of Deep Isolation will speak on Wednesday, January 29th at the Health Physics Society (HPS) midyear meeting in Bethesda, Maryland.

Event, January 27-29, 2020

Cleantech Forum

Liz Muller, CEO of Deep Isolation will speak at Cleantech Forum San Francisco on January 28, 2020. The session will be moderated by Kirsty Gogan, Energy for Humanity.

Event, January 28-30, 2020

INMM 35th Spent Fuel Management Seminar

Deep Isolation will speak at the 35th INMM Spent Fuel Seminar in Alexandria, Virginia on January 29, in the session, "Update on Private Spent Fuel Storage Solutions."

Event, March 8-12, 2020

WM Symposia 2020

Deep Isolation will speak and exhibit at the Waste Management Symposia in March in Phoenix, Arizona. Rod Balzter will present the development of the safety analysis for disposal in horizontal boreholes in the session, "Developments in Deep Borehole Disposal Around the World" on Thursday, March 12.

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In the News

Nuclear Engineering International, January 2020.

Solid Isolation

Page 32: New methods for confirming the stagnation of underground waters over hundreds of thousands of years could help determine suitable sites for borehole disposal of radioactive waste. Richard A. Muller explains

San Francisco Business Times, Biz Journal, January 09, 2020.

Berkeley-based startup partners with Bechtel for nuclear waste disposal contracts

[This article is behind a pay wall] The United States has a problem with its nuclear waste: it keeps building up and the government doesn’t know where to put it longterm.

Economic BG, November 15, 2019.

A US company has developed a new technology for the disposal of nuclear waste

[This article was translated from Bulgarian] The process is inexpensive and allows the efficient and sustainable solution of the problem of SNF and RAW storage

Nuclear Energy Insider, November 13, 2019.

Deep Isolation and NAC to develop horizontal repository design

Modular horizontal borehole repository could cut disposal costs in half compared to mined solution.

World Nuclear News, November 12, 2019.

US companies to cooperate on waste disposal technology

Deep Isolation and NAC International are to cooperate in the design, development, and manufacturing of Deep Isolation’s disposal canister technology.

ABC News Radio Breakfast with Paul Culliver, October 10th, 2019

ABC News Radio – Australia

Jim Voss appeared on ABC News Radio across the north and west of South Australia during his time down under. “Deep Isolation drills vertical holes roughly one kilometer deep and then drills horizontally to store the waste.”

Orange county Register, September 29th, 2019

Are 3-mile-deep boreholes the long-term answer for nuclear waste stalemate?

“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.”

Liberty & Justice for All, Episode 5, September 24th, 2019

A Conversation with Sam Brinton of Deep Isolation and the Trevor Project

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.

Radionuclear, Episode 25, September 20, 2019

What happened in Russia? Dr. Richard Muller of Deep Isolation guests!

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.

Press Releases

Deep Isolation

Press Release, January 7, 2020

Deep Isolation Begins Series A Investment Round

Berkeley, CA – Deep Isolation, a leading innovator in nuclear waste disposal solutions, kicks off its Series A raise on January 7, 2020. The company hopes to secure $10-15 million from venture investors; it already has $5 million of in-kind support committed from strategic partners. “Our next milestone is $50M in global sales,” said Elizabeth

Press Release, November 11, 2019

Deep Isolation Announces Memorandum of Agreement with NAC International Inc.

Berkeley, CA – Deep Isolation, a leading innovator in spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level waste (HLW) storage and disposal solutions, has signed a cooperative agreement with NAC International Inc. (NAC), a leading nuclear fuel cycle consulting and technology solutions company specializing in casks and canister systems for nuclear materials transport and spent fuel storage and disposal.

Deep Isolation

Press Release, June 24, 2019

Deep Isolation Announces Memorandum of Agreement with Bechtel

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

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