Michele Kearney's Nuclear Wire

Major Energy and Environmental News and Commentary affecting the Nuclear Industry.

Friday, February 1, 2019

Can We Drill A Hole Deep Enough For Our Nuclear Waste?

Can We Drill A Hole Deep Enough For Our Nuclear Waste?: Deep Isolation takes advantage of recently developed fracking technologies to place nuclear waste in a series of two-mile-long tunnels, a mile below the Earth’s surface, where they’ll be surrounded by a very tight rock called shale. And their recent field demonstration worked just fine.

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