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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
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.
Why now: Growing interest in nuclear power and safe waste disposal is drawing attention to unconventional storage solutions borrowed from the oil industry.
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