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  • DOE, Battelle Partner for Deep Borehole Drilling Research Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOE, Battelle Partner for Deep Borehole Drilling Research Project

    A Battelle-led consortium has been chosen by the U.S. Energy Department to help study the feasibility of creating deep-borehole repositories in crystalline rock formations. The consortium will drill a more than 16,000-foot hole through a rock formation located near Rugby, North Dakota, in an effort to examine the potential use of boreholes for high-level radioactive waste disposal or geothermal energy development, the […] More