October 5, 2020 – Deep Isolation, a Berkeley, Calif.-based clean tech startup company, aims to solve one of the world’s most pressing environmental problems — the permanent disposal of approximately 490,000 metric tons of radioactive spent fuel that is being temporarily stored at hundreds of sites worldwide.
No spent nuclear fuel anywhere in the world has yet been placed in a permanent repository. In the U.S., there are more than 80,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel currently stored at nuclear reactor sites. Link to article
