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Startup Applies Oil Drilling Techniques to Nuclear Waste Storage
Original: Big Oil Perfected Sideways Drilling. A Startup Wants to Do the Same With Nuclear Waste https://gizmodo.com/big-oil-perfe
A startup is proposing to use horizontal drilling technology, which the oil and gas industry spent decades refining, to dispose of nuclear waste deep underground. The idea is to bore sideways repositories in stable rock formations, keeping radioactive material isolated far longer and more securely than conventional surface storage. The concept is drawing attention as a fresh answer to the long-unsolved problem of where to put spent nuclear fuel.
Why now: It offers a novel technical solution to nuclear waste disposal, a long-standing unsolved problem.
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- Big Oil Perfected Sideways Drilling. A Startup Wants to Do the Same With Nuclear Waste https://gizmodo.com/big-oil-perfected-sideways-drilling-a-startup-wants-to-do-the-same-with-nuclear-waste-2000820952 # Science # Energy # Technology · gizmodo@robot.villas · 3
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