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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, refined by the oil and gas industry, to bury nuclear waste deep underground. The approach borrows techniques perfected for extracting fossil fuels and applies them to isolating radioactive material, drawing attention to how drilling innovations could reshape waste disposal solutions.
Why now: Readers are intrigued by the unexpected crossover between fossil fuel drilling technology and nuclear waste disposal.
nuclear wastehorizontal drillingoil and gas industryGizmodo
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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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