A scheduled drilling effort to construct a test borehole in the deep shale formations of North Dakota is one of the first moves in the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s formal effort to develop new nuclear ...

EAST PALESTINE — U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced on Monday $2 million in secured funds to test private wells downstream from the site of last year’s train derailment. “My job is to always ...

The Department of Energy is investigating deep borehole storage as an alternative way to dispose of spent nuclear fuel and other radioactive waste. Deep borehole disposal consists of drilling 5,000 ...

Citizens and county commissioners will meet in Spink County to discuss a proposed federal test for future nuclear waste disposal sites. Members of the public are scheduled to speak about deep borehole ...

Deep Isolation, a company founded in 2016 and headquartered in California, launched a “Deep Borehole Demonstration Center” on February 27. It aims to show that disposal of nuclear waste in deep ...