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公开(公告)号：US20240105353A1
公开(公告)日：2024-03-28
申请号：US18476708
申请日：2023-09-28
申请人： Deep Isolation, Inc.
发明人： Richard A. Muller
摘要： A hazardous material storage repository includes a borehole that extends into the Earth from a terranean surface. The borehole includes an entry and a hazardous material storage borehole portion formed in a subterranean salt formation. The repository includes a storage canister positioned in the hazardous material storage borehole portion. The storage canister is sized to fit from the entry through a substantially vertical borehole portion of the borehole, and into the hazardous material storage borehole portion. The storage canister includes an inner cavity sized to enclose nuclear waste material that includes TRansUranic waste.
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公开(公告)号：US11842822B2
公开(公告)日：2023-12-12
申请号：US17705536
申请日：2022-03-28
申请人： Deep Isolation, Inc.
发明人： Richard A. Muller
摘要： Techniques for inspecting a weld of a nuclear waste canister include positioning a gamma ray image detector near a nuclear waste canister that encloses nuclear waste. The nuclear waste canister includes a housing that includes a volume in which the waste is enclosed and a top connected to the housing with at least one weld to seal the nuclear waste in the nuclear waste canister. The techniques further include receiving, at the gamma ray image detector, gamma rays from the nuclear waste that travel through one or more voids in the weld; generating an image of the received gamma rays with the gamma ray image detector; and based on the generated image, determining an integrity of the at least one weld.
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公开(公告)号：US20220288658A1
公开(公告)日：2022-09-15
申请号：US17750632
申请日：2022-05-23
申请人： Deep Isolation, Inc.
发明人： Richard A. Muller
摘要： A power generator system includes one or more heat transfer members configured to contact: a heat source in a hazardous waste repository of a directional drillhole that stores nuclear waste in one or more nuclear waste canisters, and a heat sink in the hazardous waste repository; and one or more thermoelectric generators thermally coupled to the one or more heat transfer members and configured to generate electric power based on a temperature difference between the heat source and the heat sink.
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公开(公告)号：US10861614B2
公开(公告)日：2020-12-08
申请号：US16817178
申请日：2020-03-12
申请人： Deep Isolation, Inc.
摘要： Techniques for storing nuclear waste hazardous material include identifying a storage area of a directional wellbore formed from a terranean surface and extending into a subterranean formation; circulating a slurry that includes a hardenable material and one or more portions of nuclear waste hazardous material into the storage area; forming a seal in the directional wellbore that isolates the storage area of the directional wellbore from an entry of the directional wellbore; monitoring at least one variable associated with the one or more portions of nuclear waste hazardous material from a sensor positioned proximate the storage area; recording the monitored variable at the terranean surface; and based on the monitored variable exceeding a threshold value, removing the seal from the wellbore and retrieving at least a portion of the slurry from the storage area to the terranean surface.
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公开(公告)号：US20200271632A1
公开(公告)日：2020-08-27
申请号：US16796798
申请日：2020-02-20
申请人： Deep Isolation, Inc.
摘要： Techniques for determining the suitability of a subterranean formation as a hazardous waste repository include determining a concentration of at least one noble gas isotope of a plurality of noble gas isotopes in fluid sample from a subterranean formation below a terranean surface; determining a produced amount of the at least one noble gas isotope in the subterranean formation based on a production rate of the at least one noble gas isotope and a minimum residence time; calculating a ratio of the determined concentration of the at least one noble gas isotope in the fluid sample to the determined produced amount of the at least one noble gas isotope; and based on the calculated ratio being at or near a threshold value, determining that the subterranean formation is suitable as a hazardous waste repository.
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公开(公告)号：US20240013945A1
公开(公告)日：2024-01-11
申请号：US18035575
申请日：2021-11-05
申请人： Deep Isolation, Inc.
发明人： Richard A. Muller
IPC分类号： G21F9/36
摘要： A hazardous waste repository includes a substantially vertical drillhole portion that extends toward a subterranean rock formation from a terranean surface, the drillhole including an entry at least proximate the terranean surface; and a hazardous material storage drillhole portion formed in or under the subterranean rock formation and coupled to the substantially vertical drillhole portion, the hazardous material storage drillhole portion configured to store one or more hazardous material canisters that encloses nuclear waste. The substantially vertical drillhole portion includes an aspect ratio of surface area of the substantially vertical drillhole portion to a cross-sectional area of the substantially vertical drillhole portion that impedes movement of a hazardous component of a nuclear waste material from a first end of the substantially vertical drillhole portion to a second end of the substantially vertical drillhole portion through at least one of advective isolation or diffusive isolation.
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公开(公告)号：US11488736B2
公开(公告)日：2022-11-01
申请号：US17129443
申请日：2020-12-21
申请人： Deep Isolation, Inc.
发明人： Richard A. Muller
摘要： A hazardous material storage system includes a drillhole extending into the Earth and including an entry at least proximate a terranean surface. The drillhole includes a substantially vertical portion, a curved portion, and a horizontal portion that includes a hazardous waste repository formed within a first portion of the horizontal portion of the drillhole, the hazardous waste repository vertically isolated, by a rock formation, from a subterranean zone that includes mobile water, and a safety runway formed within a second portion of the horizontal portion exclusive of the hazardous waste repository and adjacent the curved portion, the safety runway defined by a particular length.
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公开(公告)号：US20220223308A1
公开(公告)日：2022-07-14
申请号：US17705536
申请日：2022-03-28
申请人： Deep Isolation, Inc.
发明人： Richard A. Muller
摘要： Techniques for inspecting a weld of a nuclear waste canister include positioning a gamma ray image detector near a nuclear waste canister that encloses nuclear waste. The nuclear waste canister includes a housing that includes a volume in which the waste is enclosed and a top connected to the housing with at least one weld to seal the nuclear waste in the nuclear waste canister. The techniques further include receiving, at the gamma ray image detector, gamma rays from the nuclear waste that travel through one or more voids in the weld; generating an image of the received gamma rays with the gamma ray image detector; and based on the generated image, determining an integrity of the at least one weld.
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公开(公告)号：US20220157482A1
公开(公告)日：2022-05-19
申请号：US17509699
申请日：2021-10-25
申请人： Deep Isolation, Inc.
发明人： Joe H. Payer , Stefan Finsterle , John Apps , Richard A. Muller
摘要： A hazardous material repository includes a drillhole formed from a terranean surface into a subterranean zone that includes a geologic formation, where the drillhole includes a vertical portion and a non-vertical portion coupled to the vertical portion by a transition portion, the non-vertical portion includes a storage volume for hazardous waste; a casing installed between the geologic formation and the drillhole, the casing including one or more metallic tubular sections; at least one canister positioned in the storage volume of the non-vertical portion of the drillhole, the at least one canister sized to enclose a portion of hazardous material and including an outer housing formed from a non-corrosive metallic material; and a backfill material inserted into the non-vertical portion of the drillhole to fill at least a portion of the storage volume between the at least one canister and the casing.
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公开(公告)号：US11289230B2
公开(公告)日：2022-03-29
申请号：US17194564
申请日：2021-03-08
申请人： Deep Isolation, Inc.
发明人： Richard A. Muller
摘要： Techniques for inspecting a weld of a nuclear waste canister include positioning a gamma ray image detector near a nuclear waste canister that encloses nuclear waste. The nuclear waste canister includes a housing that includes a volume in which the waste is enclosed and a top connected to the housing with at least one weld to seal the nuclear waste in the nuclear waste canister. The techniques further include receiving, at the gamma ray image detector, gamma rays from the nuclear waste that travel through one or more voids in the weld; generating an image of the received gamma rays with the gamma ray image detector; and based on the generated image, determining an integrity of the at least one weld.
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