Deep Isolation, Inc.

Innovative startup with an equitable and environmentally protective solution for nuclear waste storage or disposal, an untapped $500B market.

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Clean Technology
  • Location Berkeley, CA, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded June 2016
  • Employees 22
  • Incorporation Type C-corp
  • Website deepisolation.com

Company Summary

Deep Isolation offers an innovative solution for nuclear waste disposal that builds on proven drilling techniques with a patented canister design to safely, reliably, and equitably dispose of nuclear waste thousands of feet underground - at a cost dramatically less than anything else being considered. Our business approach of a public-private partnership combined with a community focus uniquely positions us to disrupt an untapped $500B market.

Team

  • Co-Founder and Executive Director of Berkeley Earth. Former Director at Gov3 and Policy Advisor at the OECD. Deep Isolation patents co-author. Muller is an environmentalist with expertise on global warming, stakeholder engagement, strategy, and communications.

  • Richard A. Muller
    CTO

    Professor Emeritus of Physics at University of California, Berkeley. Founded two Nobel Prize-winning projects. Inventor and first to demonstrate Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS). Founded Berkeley Earth. JASON advisor to the US government for 34 years. Recipient of awards such as the MacArthur Prize and Breakthrough Prize. Author of 30 patent apps (3 issued), 100+ refereed journal articles, and 10 books including “Energy for Future Presidents.”

  • Rod Baltzer
    COO

    Former President and CEO of Waste Control Specialists LLC, a leading provider of services for low-level and mixed low-level radioactive and hazardous waste. At WCS he was responsible for the business including the NRC license application for the consolidated interim storage of used nuclear fuel. Baltzer is an expert in the low-level radioactive waste industry, generators, and national storage and disposal capabilities.

Advisors

  • Robert Budnitz
    Unconfirmed
    Steven Chu
    Unconfirmed
    Clay Collier
    Unconfirmed
  • Terry Considine
    Unconfirmed
    Ed Feulner
    Unconfirmed
    Will Glaser
    Unconfirmed
  • David Hoffman
    Unconfirmed
    David Lochbaum
    Unconfirmed
    Shaun Maguire
    Unconfirmed
  • Daniel Metlay
    Unconfirmed
    Per Peterson
    Unconfirmed
    Scott Tinker
    Unconfirmed

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