Researchers report that the roughness of pre-existing faults and associated stress heterogeneity in geological reservoirs play a key role for causing human-made earthquakes, so-called runaway events.

Deep geological disposal is a globally recognized and safe method for long-term management of high-level radioactive waste (HLW). However, over extended periods of nuclear waste storage, there is the ...

Efforts to extract underground hydrogen for use as a clean fuel have received a huge boost from the US Department of Energy (DoE), which earlier this month announced $20 million in funding to explore ...

A recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment has unveiled an extraordinary discovery: the solid rock deep beneath our feet is not as rigid as previously thought. Scientists have ...

Different countries planning the safe, permanent disposal of nuclear waste in geological repositories are sharing experiences and learning from each other, as Neil Hyatt, chief scientific advisor to ...

St. Joseph School students, center, Chandler Langley and, right, Spencer Freyaldenhoven participated in a geological experiment conducted by Luke Martin, left, of Southwestern Energy Company in Conway ...

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A rock sample is compressed in this apparatus. The sample is fitted with many sensors to detect acoustic emissions, i.e. micro-earthquakes. Man-made earthquakes, so called induced seismicity, have ...