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US firm’s borehole tech to dispose of nuclear waste deep underground

Deep Isolation’s nuclear waste disposal technology is being designed to leverage directional drilling to isolate spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste in deep boreholes.

A Berkeley-based company has started its full-scale demonstration program for nuclear waste disposal. Deep Isolation announced the launch of its multi-year, full-scale program to conduct testing of its deep borehole technology for safely and permanen… [2827 chars]

Source: Interesting Engineering | Published: 2026-02-05T13:46:38Z

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