News Summary

• More than 95,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel sit in temporary storage across about 80 sites in over 30 states.
• A decadeslong effort to develop a controversial, nationwide waste repository in the Nevada desert at Yucca Mountain has largely failed.
• Early next year, Halliburton will drill the first test well—using an extra-large drill bit—to delve thousands of feet underground vertically and horizontally.
• For Deep Isolation, the buried nuclear waste canisters can even be retrieved in case of emergency.