Deep Isolation announced July 13 that the company’s application to trade on the OTCQB Venture Market under the ticker symbol “DBHL” has been approved. The public listing marks a major capital markets milestone for the company as it ramps up commercialization of its proprietary deep borehole nuclear waste disposal technology.

Deep Isolation CEO Rod Baltzer on tackling one of the toughest challenges in nuclear energy

The company has deployed its new technology demonstration lead on-site as it prepares to validate borehole construction, canister emplacement and waste handling at full scale.

But don’t get too excited. ‘Keep the political screws on. It’s going to take a lot of political pressure to make progress.’

Amentum is solving the global small modular reactor (SMR) bottleneck through the Deep Isolation borehole nuclear waste disposal project.

There is a renewed push to scale technology that can extract energy from radioactive waste—and even reap power from Cold War-era bombs.

While mined deep geological repositories remain the standard for large-scale commercial spent nuclear fuel disposal, deep borehole disposal has emerged as a viable, modular disposal alternative, particularly for the diverse, non-traditional waste forms generated by advanced microreactors and SMRs. Jesse Sloan, Executive Vice President of Engineering at Deep Isolation, explained this disposal method, and the ...

The company is preparing to present at the NEI Used Fuel Management Conference in Savannah, Georgia, where Executive Vice President of Engineering Jesse Sloane will join the “Advanced Reactor Used Fuel I” session.

The Department of Energy wants to collaborate with states that agree to take in and possibly recycle used nuclear fuel, and some have responded positively. But practical and policy challenges remain.

Deep Isolation been selected for the DOE’s ARPA-E SCALEUP Ready program, one of only two projects to receive federal backing from a pool of up to $40 million.