Norwegian Nuclear Decommissioning Concludes Deep Borehole Disposal Great Option For Nuclear Waste

Norwegian Nuclear Decommissioning Concludes Deep Borehole Disposal Great Option For Nuclear Waste

Share to Linkedin Deep Isolation just announced the results of a study commissioned by the Slovenian Radioactive Waste Management Organisation (ARAO) showing that Slovenia, as well as the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and Croatia, could save money by disposing of spent fuel from its nuclear power plant and its TRIGA II research reactor in one deep borehole repository. Which makes perfect sense. Many countries that have nuclear power only have a few reactors and too little waste to justify spending tens of billions on a deep geologic repository. Schematic of a deep horizontal drillhole repository for nuclear waste (see text for explanation). There are not that many reasonable paths forward for disposing of nuclear waste. In this case, either these countries band together to put all their waste in one repository in one of the countries, as suggested by the Arius Project, or they do deep borehole disposal that allows each country to dispose of their own small waste stream more cheaply and without crossing international borders. Deep Isolation is a company out of Berkeley that is working to dispose of nuclear waste in deep boreholes in the Earth's crust, safer and at a lower cost than existing strategies. Last year,