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DEEP ISOLATION

http://www.deepisolation.com/

Last activity: 05.08.2025

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Deep Isolation Inc. was founded in 2016, and is working on a safe, permanent solution for the disposal of nuclear waste. Our purpose here on social media is to further the conversation about nuclear waste. Shares do not equate to endorsement of opinions.

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Location: United States, District of Columbia, Washington

Employees: 11-50

Phone: +1 415-915-6505

Total raised: $3.6M

Founded date: 2016

Investors 2

Date	Name	Website
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05.08.2025	Montrose C...	montroseca...

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Date	Series	Amount	Investors
11.03.2022	Grant	$3.6M	-

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Date	Title	Description
13.01.2023	Deep Borehole Demonstration Center Announced with Launch Executive Director Ted Garrish	A new Deep Borehole Demonstration Center will be publicly launched Feb. 27 at the Waste Management Symposia in Phoenix. The new nonprofit organization is open to participation from governments, utilities, nuclear operators and research orga...
12.01.2023	Deep Borehole Demonstration Center Announced with Launch Executive Director Ted Garrish	A new nonprofit organization will study deep borehole disposal of nuclear waste. The Center is ultimately about answering the age-old question: ‘What about the waste?’ ... This is the question that we’ve got to answer. And that is what the ...
02.12.2022	Deep Isolation to research deep borehole disposal as part of EPRI DOE grant to study uranium recovery options for next gen reactors	LONDON, Dec. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Deep Isolation announced today it is part of a grant project awarded to EPRI, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Southern Company Research and Development. The $2.8 million grant from the U.S. Depa...
03.11.2022	Deep Isolation to design waste disposal plan for Argonne National Lab's $4.9M CURIE grant to develop spent nuclear fuel recycling processes	Performing the technical and economic analyses of the waste streams alongside the OR process development is important as it will ensure that a disposal pathway for the remaining waste exists before the technology is fully commercialized. — ...
19.09.2022	Deep Isolation offers opportunity to enable nuclear power expansion	Deep Isolation “Deep Isolation is well-positioned to deliver significant returns on investment in timeframes that are aligned with VC requirements,” said Deep Isolation CEO and co-founder Liz Muller. “Nuclear has become not only a smart inv...
19.09.2022	Deep Isolation offers opportunity to enable nuclear power expansion	BERKELEY, Calif., Sept. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The lack of a viable spent fuel disposal solution remains an obstacle to the increasing global interest in nuclear power that guarantees energy security and helps enable a net zero world. Dee...
09.08.2022	Deep Isolation and Amentum form Partnership to Commercialize Nuclear Waste Disposal Technology Globally	Partnership Formed to Capture Opportunities in $30 Billion Market BERKELEY, Calif. and GERMANTOWN, Md., Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Deep Isolation Inc. and Amentum have signed a Memorandum of Agreement to work together to further the comme...
09.08.2022	Deep Isolation and Amentum form Partnership to Commercialize Nuclear Waste Disposal Technology Globally	“This partnership strengthens our collective position in a growing market to provide innovative solutions for nuclear disposal around the world.” — Jim Blankenhorn, Senior Vice President, Amentum BERKELEY, Calif. and GERMANTOWN, Md. (PRWEB)...
16.07.2022	Deep Isolation: Solving Nuclear Waste Removes Barrier to Nuclear Energy	SEOUL, South Korea, July 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Countries worldwide are reconsidering nuclear energy to achieve energy security, meet increasing electricity demands and fight climate change. As the International Energy Agency says, reachi...
12.05.2022	Deep Isolation CEO a Finalist for EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2022 Bay Area	“My passion for making the world a better place drives me to innovate in unexpected and necessary ways.” — Liz Muller, Deep Isolation CEO and a finalist for EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2022, San Francisco Bay Area BERKELEY, Calif. (PRWEB) ...
14.04.2022	Finland has grand nuclear energy aspirations, but Russia still looms large	The news: Finland has big plans for expanding its nuclear energy program to free itself of Russian energy, but a major roadblock stands in its way. Russian-state-owned nuclear power supplier Rosatom is under contract to build the Hanhikivi ...
04.04.2022	Deep Isolation is a new tech startup founded by a daughter-father team to bury and safely dispose nuclear waste	Energy powers the world. Today, nuclear power currently provides about 20 percent of US electricity— and 50 percent of its carbon-free electricity, according to data from the US Energy Information and Administration (EIA). However, what’s r...
11.03.2022	Deep Isolation Joins Oklo Inc., National Laboratories in Winning $4 Million Grant for Spent Fuel Waste Reduction Project	We are thrilled to have this opportunity to explore how Deep Isolation can help close the fuel cycle for Oklo’s advanced reactor designs. We are taking the responsible decision of planning for disposal as an integrated part of reactor devel...
11.03.2022	Deep Isolation Wins $3.6 Million Grant to Develop Universal Nuclear Waste Disposal Canister for Advanced Reactor Spent Fuel	The fact that Deep Isolation is receiving two awards from ARPA-E affirms the importance of disposal innovations for advanced nuclear technologies. — Deep Isolation COO Rod Baltzer, BERKELEY, Calif. (PRWEB) March 11, 2022 Deep Isolation, in ...
23.02.2022	Deep Isolation presents research on technical readiness, waste canister design, international stakeholder borehole study	BERKELEY, Calif. (PRWEB) February 23, 2022 Deep Isolation will present its latest research in three sessions at Waste Management Symposia 2022, taking place March 6-10 in Phoenix. On March 7 Deep Isolation Director of Systems Engineering Dr...
14.01.2022	EU Nuclear Waste Organizations Conclude Deep Borehole Disposal Great Option For Nuclear Waste	Deep Isolation recently completed two studies, one by the Slovenia Radioactive Waste Management Organisation (ARAO) and one by Norwegian Nuclear Decommissioning, showing that deep boreholes could be a less expensive option for nuclear waste...
30.08.2021	Deep Isolation Awarded Contract to Study Deep Borehole Disposal in Slovenia	The TRIGA II research reactor at the Josef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia. More countries have research reactors than full-scale power plants. Slovenia is an early adopter in this market, and we expect that the work will show that ...
04.05.2021	Deep Isolation Announces Agreement with Dominion Engineering, Inc. to Cooperate in Developing Nuclear Waste Disposal Technology	Deep Isolation and Dominion Engineering Inc. to cooperate in Latin America nuclear waste disposal. “DEI’s reputation for delivering innovative services and technologies that enhance the safety and integrity of nuclear fuel is wholly consist...
01.02.2021	Study: Estonia’s Geology Holds Promise for Nuclear Waste Disposal	“As Estonia considers the role that advanced nuclear power generation can play in delivering a low-carbon future for the country, citizens and policymakers can feel confident there is a safe and affordable way to dispose of the resulting sp...
18.11.2020	Financing the Energy Transition: $200M SPAC from TJ Rodgers, plus funding for nuclear fuel disposal, next-gen CSP and more	$39 million for next-gen concentrated solar power The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is betting big on supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) as the key to making concentrated solar power (CSP) not only cost competitive, but a major driver fo...
30.04.2020	Amid COVID-19, Deep Borehole Disposal Of Nuclear Waste Marches Forward	The pandemic has certainly slowed America and the world to a crawl. But we will get back to some form of a working society, hopefully with a better perspective on what’s important. The temporary drop in carbon emissions from the lockdown of...
-	Deep Isolation	“Deep Isolation offers nuclear waste storage and disposal solutions using directional drilling technology and community partnerships.”
-	Finland has grand nuclear energy aspirations, but Russia still looms large	The news: Finland has big plans for expanding its nuclear energy program to free itself of Russian energy, but a major roadblock stands in its way. Russian-state-owned nuclear power supplier Rosatom is under contract to build the Hanhikivi ...
-	This daughter and father founded a company to bury nuclear waste by drilling deep boreholes	Currently, there is no permanent nuclear waste depository in the United States. Instead, nuclear waste is stored in dry casks at the locations of currently operating and former nuclear power plants around the country. Deep Isolation, wants ...

DEEP ISOLATION

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