California-based Deep Isolation has appointed Rod Baltzer as its new chief executive officer effective Jane 1, the company said May 31.
Baltzer has been chief operating officer of Deep Isolation since 2018, the company said in a press release. Baltzer was previously president and CEO of Waste Control Specialists in Andrews County, Texas. Baltzer helped steer the 2018 sale of Waste Control Specialists to J.F. Lehman & Company, according to the release.
Baltzer takes over as Deep Isolation CEO from Elizabeth Muller, who co-founded the private waste disposal company in 2016 with her father Richard Muller. The former CEO, becomes executive board chair, Deep Isolation said in the press release.
Work crews at the Department of Energy’s Paducah Site in Kentucky recently imploded a 310-foot-high water tower, the agency announced this week.
Use of the 1950s era water tower ended after DOE switched to a dry-hybrid fire suppression system at the site, according to the DOE press release. The press release, which includes a link to a five-minute video can be found here.
The Department of Energy flew a drone 2,000 feet underground to check out portions of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M., the agency said Wednesday.
The drone offered the first visual inspection of an underground air exhaust passageway, or drift, previously closed off to workers, DOE said in the release. Data from the drone will help the agency decide if the area is safe for in-person inspections
Technology from the Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories in New Mexico was used for the drone to inspect the area remotely in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). The research was done by cooperation between WIPP prime Salado Isolation Mining Contractors, Sandia National Laboratory’s Autonomy & Unmanned Systems Robotics Group along with researchers at Los Alamos, DOE’s Office of Environmental Management and its Carlsbad Field Office.
