In the world of construction and contracting, selection of the right subcontractors or suppliers is paramount for the safe and successful completion of any given project. For complex projects, choosing even one wrong subcontractor or supplier can cause catastrophic impact to both project completion and the overall budget.

Advancing deep borehole disposal takes more than engineering work at a desk. It takes time in the field: sharing our plans with others, asking questions, and learning from people with hands-on experience in nuclear waste management. Two recent visits in Texas gave our team opportunities to do both.

I recently made the trip down to Cameron, Texas to join Rod Baltzer and the Deep Isolation team at the Deep Borehole Demonstration Center, where Deep Isolation and its collaborators are conducting a full-scale, nonradioactive demonstration of the company’s deep borehole disposal technology and Universal Canister System. The purpose was to get a group of industry leaders together and take a hard look at the next steps of a technology that could change how we solve one of the nuclear industry’s biggest problems.

We got busy with our heads down making progress and neglected to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Deep Isolation.

As part of one of our international client studies, I’m working on a report deliverable to provide a preliminary environmental and social impact assessment. It’s imperative that a nuclear waste disposal facility has a strong defensible set of analyses that can prove to regulators and the general public that it will perform as designed, and in a safe manner.

Different geologic formations control fluid movement, heat transport, and long-term stability for the safe isolation of nuclear waste.

Learn how the long-term safety of a nuclear waste repository can be ultimately controlled by the natural behavior of the geologic system.

Nuclear energy is an important part of the U.S. energy landscape. What do we do with the nuclear waste? Deep Isolation has the answer.

A look at how deep borehole R&D complements the development of advanced reactors.

By Jessica Chow The rapid growth of nuclear start-ups in the past two decades indicates the changing nuclear industry: an industry in need of innovation. This industry needs fresh perspectives from professionals excited to engage with nuclear technology, especially in the face of the global challenge of climate change.  The nuclear start-up life was the ...