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Big Oil Perfected Sideways Drilling. A Startup Wants to Do the Same With Nuclear Waste

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What happened

A startup and oilfield giant Halliburton want to bury America's nuclear waste nearly 2 miles underground.

The scheme makes a perverse amount of sense.

Key facts

  • A startup and oilfield giant Halliburton want to bury America's nuclear waste nearly 2 miles underground.
  • Reported by Gizmodo and published Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:55:36 UTC.

Why it matters

Platform, chip and AI decisions set the terms other companies have to build on, so a single announcement here tends to ripple through products, supply chains and regulation.

What to watch next

  • Availability, pricing and rollout regions
  • Independent testing or verification of the claims made
  • Responses from regulators and competing platforms

Coverage timeline

When each newsroom published on this story, oldest first — all times UTC.

  1. US military ends long-running program to spot nuclear missile launches

  2. Big Oil Perfected Sideways Drilling. A Startup Wants to Do the Same With Nuclear Waste

  3. Meta wants people to build their own Muse gadgets, too

Sources

The original report was published by Gizmodo. WorldPing does not claim that reporting — this page summarises and contextualises it.

Read the full report at Gizmodo

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