Nuclear Innovator Deep Isolation Begins Trading on the OTCQB Venture Market Under the Ticker Symbol “DBHL”
BERKELEY, Calif., July 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Deep Isolation Nuclear, Inc. ("Deep Isolation" or the "Company"), a leading innovator in nuclear waste disposal technology, today announced that its application for listing its common stock for trading on the OTCQB Venture Market has been approved. The Company’s common stock is now available to trade under the ticker symbol "DBHL".
"We are excited to begin trading on the OTCQB, offering public market investors the ability to invest in our innovative nuclear waste disposal technology," said Rod Baltzer, President & CEO of Deep Isolation. "Becoming a publicly traded company allows investors to join us in advancing proven, science-based innovation to address one of the world’s most pressing energy challenges."
The OTCQB listing provides Deep Isolation with improved access to capital markets as the Company continues to advance the development and demonstration of its proprietary technologies based on its Universal Canister System, which addresses the need for storage, transport and disposal of reactor waste and facilitates the safe, permanent disposal of nuclear waste deep underground as a cost-effective alternative to traditional methods.
Deep Isolation’s OTCQB listing builds on a series of significant achievements in 2025, highlighted by its successful Alternative Public Offering (APO), as well as an oversubscribed $33 million private offering. Since the APO, the Company has advanced multiple strategic and technical initiatives, while benefiting from increasingly favorable market conditions in the nuclear sector. These have been driven by growing global recognition of nuclear energy’s essential role in the clean energy transition and the urgent need for permanent nuclear waste solutions.
Recent strategic and technical milestones include:
- Launch of a non-radioactive, full-scale, at-depth demonstration of the Company’s deep borehole waste disposal technology at Halliburton’s Drilling Technology Facility near Cameron, TX.
- Selection for ARPA-E’s SCALEUP Ready program to support commercial deployment of Deep Isolation’s Universal Canister System. Deep Isolation is advancing through the contracting phase for funding of up to $20 million to support its Cameron, TX demonstration project and is the first company in the nuclear industry selected to participate in the SCALEUP Ready program. The project brings together a world-class project team, including Westinghouse, NAC International (TYO:7004), Halliburton (NYSE:HAL), Occlusion Nuclear Solutions, Amentum (NYSE:AMTM), and the Deep Borehole Demonstration Center ("the DBDC"), to demonstrate a fully integrated and permanent solution for nuclear waste disposal.
- A technology licensing agreement with Navarro Research and Engineering, Inc., and the restart of the U.S. Trade and Development Agency-funded Bulgaria feasibility study.
- New strategic collaborations with Halliburton, one of the world’s leading providers of drilling and well construction services, and with Occlusion Nuclear Solutions, a global leader in well emplacement services.
- Surpassing 100 issued patents worldwide, reinforcing Deep Isolation’s position as a leading innovator in nuclear waste disposal technology and expanding protection of its proprietary deep borehole disposal and Universal Canister System technologies.
- Completion of several key technology development and commercialization projects, which together have leveraged over $7 million of grant funding to Deep Isolation from the U.S. Department of Energy and UK government to engineer and test the world’s first Universal Canister System for storage, transport, and disposal of advanced reactor waste. Through partnerships with industry leaders such as Kairos Power, Deep Isolation has further supported evidence of the performance and technical readiness of its Universal Canister System.
- Completion of work on multiple other ARPA-E funded projects, as subrecipients to Oklo (NYSE:OKLO) and Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) all of which are expected to demonstrate Deep Isolation’s Universal Canister System and deep borehole disposal solution as an optimized platform for integrated management of high-level radioactive waste from the advanced nuclear industry.
"This listing is a significant milestone in our efforts toward the commercialization of our patented deep borehole disposal technology," added Baltzer. "The momentum we have built demonstrates both the market opportunity and our capability in addressing this critical global nuclear waste challenge. Our successful APO and private raise in July 2025 allowed us to push ahead with development of a full-scale demonstration project to validate the safety and feasibility of our solution, and I look forward to keeping investors informed as this world-first initiative progresses."
About the OTCQB Venture Market
The OTCQB Venture Market is designed for entrepreneurial and development stage U.S. and international companies. To be eligible, companies must meet certain financial standards, maintain current reporting, and undergo an annual verification and management certification process. The OTCQB quality standards provide a strong baseline of transparency, as well as the technology and regulation to improve the information and trading experience for investors. Companies on OTCQB are able to utilize OTC Link ATS for efficient trading and can make their information available at www.otcmarkets.com, the most visited website for researching and trading over-the-counter securities.
About Deep Isolation
Deep Isolation is the first company to undertake development of technologies for nuclear waste disposal in deep boreholes. When commercialized, Deep Isolation’s solution will offer a unique solution to help countries identify, plan for and complete the necessary steps to dispose of their nuclear waste inventories. With over 100 patents issued to date, Deep Isolation’s technology is being designed to leverage proven drilling practices to allow safe isolation of waste deep underground in horizontal, vertical, or slanted borehole repositories. Deep Isolation’s Universal Canister System was developed through a three-year project funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy and is engineered to support integrated management of spent fuel and high-level radioactive waste from legacy and advanced reactors across storage, transportation, and eventual disposal. In January 2026, Deep Isolation launched a full-scale, at-depth deep borehole Commercialization Pilot for its solution at Cameron, Texas, in collaboration with the Deep Borehole Demonstration Center, Halliburton (NYSE:HAL), Amentum (NYSE:AMTM), NAC International, and Occlusion Nuclear Solutions.
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The Company’s SEC filings are available free of charge at www.sec.gov or on the Deep Isolation website: https://www.deepisolation.com/investors/financial-information/
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