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Ultra Deep Geologic Repository
Massively Engineered Waste Capsules
Sustainable Economics
Security and Safety of Operations
Extremely Long Lived Disposal Mechanisms.
Potential for Future Waste Retrievability.
The Intelligent Nuclear Waste Disposal Platform
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Patented Technology, Protected,
Readily Deployable, Economically Viable.
Stable Closed Deep Geologic Formations.
Ultra Deep Geologic Repository - UDGR™
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Reliable, Redundant, Retrievable,
Technically Superior, Technology Proven
worldwide.
1,000s of waste capsules per well.
UDGR™ - 21st Century Drilling Innovations
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Long-term Natural Barriers,
Massive Engineered Barriers,
100% Radionuclide protection,
Retrievable waste capsule systems.
UDGR™ - Lateral Wellbores
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Engineered Barriers, High Volume Capacity,
Simple Construction, Operationally advanced tubular goods,
Safely transportable to Repository Site,
Radionuclide protection.
NST Capsule
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Cost $28 Billion, 500 - 1,000 meters deep.
Capacity - 7,000,000 fuel Bundles,
Construction 2015- 2034,
Operations timeline 2035 - 2064.
CANADA: Deep Geologic Repository mine
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Cost $4.1 Billion.
High-Level Waste Capacity - 6,500 MT.
Construction time 2004 - 2020.
Similar System in SWEDEN
FINLAND: Shallow mine disposal
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Shallow, near surface tunnels in Yucca Mt.
$97 Billion total life costs (2007$).
Still undecided future,
Significant national, local and political resistance.
USA: Single source solution
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Very limited capacity in vertical wellbore.
Extreme weight concentration on bottom
capsules in lower sections of wellbore creates
potential safety problems.
Vertical wellbore storage
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Temporary, unsafe, concrete pad with wire fence,
Limited Capacity,
Terrorist attack prone.
$224,000,000 cost for a few years.
Surface Cask Storage
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Automatic, remotely controlled,
built-in safety systems, versatile, economic
scalable, easily and rapidly deployable.
Nuclear Rig Systems
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UDGR™ is better,
more advanced,
more economical, 100,000-year safety guarantee,
universally accepted.
Compared to Yucca Mt.