Texas Clears Full-Scale Underground Nuclear Waste Disposal Test

Big Oil Perfected Sideways Drilling. A Startup Wants to Do the Same With Nuclear Waste

A startup and oilfield giant Halliburton want to bury America's nuclear waste nearly 2 miles underground. The scheme makes a perverse amount of sense.

Texas Approves Full-Scale Underground Nuclear Waste Disposal Test

Texas regulators have cleared a full-scale underground test of a deep borehole disposal method for radioactive waste, according to state officials and the company developing the project. The approval authorizes the drilling of boreholes thousands of feet into crystalline basement rock, the emplacement of waste canisters, and long-term monitoring, officials said. The action marks one […]

Texas clears full-scale underground nuclear waste disposal test

Texas approves a full-scale test of technology designed to bury spent nuclear fuel deep underground in boreholes

Deep Isolation Advances Nuclear Waste Disposal Demonstration With Issuance of Texas Drilling Permit

BERKELEY, Calif., Oct. 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Deep Isolation Nuclear, Inc. ( OTCQB: DBHL ) (“Deep Isolation” or the “Company”), a leading innovator in nuclear waste disposal technology, today announced that the Texas Railroad Commission has issued a drilling…

Deep Isolation Gets Texas Permit for Nuclear Waste Test

The Texas Railroad Commission issued Deep Isolation a permit to drill near Cameron for a non-radioactive deep borehole waste disposal demonstration.

Texas Issues Drilling Permit for Nuclear Waste Disposal Demonstration

Deep Isolation plans to test its deep borehole disposal technology at full scale using non-radioactive materials at a site near Cameron, Texas.