Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

DOE Initiates Deep Borehole Rad Waste Storage Test Project

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Chris Schneidmiller
WC Monitor
1/8/2016
Initial preparations have begun on a Department of Energy project to drill a 16,000-foot borehole in North Dakota to test the use of such formations for storage of high-level radioactive waste, lead contractor Battelle…

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Berkeley, Calif.-based Deep Isolation was issued a drilling permit by a Texas state agency for its full-scale, non-nuclear borehole demonstration project in Cameron, Texas, the company said Oct. 1.
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