nuclear waste startup

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.

A startup is adapting horizontal drilling methods, long perfected by the oil and gas industry, to handle nuclear waste. The idea is to use the same directional drilling expertise that made fracking profitable to bore deep, stable repositories for spent nuclear fuel. The story highlights how skills from fossil fuel extraction could find a second life in nuclear energy, a sector seeing renewed interest as governments look for ways to store waste safely and expand clean power.