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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2018
Deep Isolation, Inc., Berkeley, CA (US);
Richard A. Muller, Berkeley, CA (US);
Elizabeth Muller, Berkeley, CA (US);
Deep Isolation, Inc., Berkeley, CA (US);
Abstract
A hazardous material storage repository includes a drillhole extending into the Earth and including an entry at least proximate a terranean surface, the drillhole including a substantially vertical drillhole portion, a transition drillhole portion coupled to the substantially vertical drillhole portion, and a hazardous material storage drillhole portion, at least one of the transition drillhole portion or the hazardous material storage drillhole portion including an isolation drillhole portion; a storage canister positioned in the hazardous material storage drillhole portion, the storage canister sized to fit from the drillhole entry through the substantially vertical drillhole portion, the transition drillhole portion, and into the hazardous material storage drillhole portion of the drillhole, the storage canister including an inner cavity sized enclose hazardous material; and a seal positioned in the drillhole, the seal isolating the hazardous material storage drillhole portion of the drillhole from the entry of the drillhole.