{"id":227526,"date":"2026-03-25T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/deep-isolation-further-validates-borehole-technology\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T14:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T18:00:17","slug":"deep-isolation-further-validates-borehole-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/deep-isolation-further-validates-borehole-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Isolation further validates borehole technology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deep Isolation further validates borehole technology<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/world-nuclear-news.org\/articles\/deep-isolation-further-validates-borehole-technology<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-03-25 13:50:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: world-nuclear-news.org<\/a><\/p>\n

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.
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Deep Isolation was among the recipients of USD36 million in funding announced in March 2022 by the US Department of Energy\u00a0(DOE) for 11 projects seeking to increase the use of nuclear power as a reliable source of clean energy and to limit the amount of radioactive waste produced from advanced reactors. The awards were made through the DOE Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E’s) Optimising Nuclear Waste and Advanced Reactor Disposal Systems (ONWARDS) programme. ONWARDS was launched in 2021 as ARPA-E’s first programme created to identify and facilitate technologies for advanced reactor used fuel recycling, waste forms, used fuel disposal pathways and associated advanced safeguards technologies.<\/p>\n

In one project – titled Enabling the Near Term Commercialisation of an Electrorefining Facility to Close the Metal Fuel Cycle – which received a USD4 million grant, Deep Isolation was joined by Oklo Inc and the Argonne and Idaho national laboratories to commercialise a fuel recycling facility that will include, for the non-recyclable waste, the development of a final waste solution compatible with a deep borehole repository. The Oklo-led project was the first focused programme to identify pathways to reduce waste material and minimise the need for disposal sites, and was the first federally-funded programme to explore pairing a commercial borehole solution with a recycling facility for an advanced reactor developer.<\/p>\n

In the project, Deep Isolation analysed the waste streams that would be generated by the electrorefining facility to identify waste forms suitable for a deep borehole repository. It would also establish the technical and cost savings framework for using deep borehole…<\/p>\n

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