Nuclear Waste Disposal Innovator Deep Isolation Appoints Experienced Executive Christa Steele to Board of Directors

BERKELEY, Calif., Oct. 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Deep Isolation Nuclear, Inc. (“Deep Isolation” or the “Company”), a leading innovator in nuclear waste disposal technology, today announced the appointment of Christa Steele to its Board of Directors, effective immediately.

Ms. Steele brings more than a decade of leadership experience as a CEO, executive, and board member across public and private organizations. Her expertise encompasses regulatory navigation, digital transformation, financial oversight, growth strategy development, and mergers and acquisitions, all critical areas that align with Deep Isolation's expansion objectives. Most recently, Ms. Steele served as interim CEO for BALCO Holdings, managing daily finance, regulatory, operations, legal, and risk functions. Previously, she served as President and CEO of Mechanics Bank.

Christa Steele

“Christa’s impressive track record and vast experience in complex, highly regulated industries make her an exceptional addition to our board,” said Rod Baltzer, President & CEO of Deep Isolation. “Christa’s proven ability to drive growth and operational improvements through periods of transformation, while maintaining operational excellence, will be instrumental as Deep Isolation continues to develop and deploy its groundbreaking nuclear waste storage and disposal solutions on a global scale.”

“I am honored to join Deep Isolation at such a pivotal moment,” said Christa Steele, newly appointed board member. "Nuclear energy is entering an unprecedented renaissance and Deep Isolation has the technology to help address a major unmet need – the disposal of spent nuclear fuel. I look forward to contributing to the company's strategic growth and operational excellence."

Deep Isolation’s board expansion supports disciplined governance, investor engagement, and global commercialization. As the company advances post-APO priorities, Steele’s regulated-industry leadership and capital markets experience strengthens board committee rigor and capital markets readiness, helping to secure long-term value creation and accelerate commercial deployment, while maintaining a clear reporting cadence and stakeholder transparency.

Deep Isolation is revolutionizing the nuclear waste disposal industry through its innovative deep borehole technology, delivering a safe, scalable, and cost-effective solution for permanent nuclear waste disposal. The Company's proprietary solution will place corrosion-resistant canisters containing nuclear waste in deep boreholes over one kilometer below the Earth’s surface, utilizing proven directional drilling technology to provide permanent isolation at a fraction of the cost of traditional mined repositories.

About Deep Isolation

Deep Isolation is the first company to commercialize nuclear waste disposal in deep boreholes. It offers a uniquely tailored solution to help countries identify, plan for and complete the necessary steps to dispose of their spent nuclear waste inventories. With 87 patents issued to date, Deep Isolation’s technology leverages proven drilling practices to safely isolate 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 waste from advanced reactors across storage, transportation and eventual disposal.

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Forward-looking statements in this or any other news release are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties, and assumptions that could cause actual results to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such risks, uncertainties, and assumptions are subject to a number of factors, including, among others: the failure of a market to develop for our deep borehole disposal solutions as quickly as we expect or at all; regulatory and legal developments, including issues relating to obtaining regulatory approvals or permissions on the timelines we expect or at all; our lack of profitability; our failure to enter into contracts with customers or, once we do enter into contracts, to continue such contractual relationships or to receive new contract awards; our dependency on governmental contracts and awards; our  failure to manage our growth effectively or to execute our business plan; a failure to sustain and expand relationships with governmental entities and strategic partners; failure in the assumptions or analyses we have used in supporting forecasts or plans; our inability to commercialize our products at scale; the development or deployment of other technologies or solutions supplanting or competing with our technologies; challenges to our intellectual property, failures to protect, maintain, enforce, and enhance our intellectual property, and claims by others of intellectual property infringement;  political and public perceptions of nuclear energy, including perceptions as to accidents or other high-profile events involving nuclear power facilities or radioactive materials; our liquidity and ability to raise capital; any inability to control operating and project costs and project delays or other project-related problems; security (including cybersecurity) breaches or disruptions; geopolitical, macroeconomic, domestic events or crises, including supply chain disruptions and other risks and uncertainties outside of our control; weather and effects of climate change; and litigation or legal proceeds that may be brought against us.

The foregoing is not an exhaustive list of all the factors that may cause any forward-looking statements to prove inaccurate or our actual results to differ materially from our expectations and forecasts. Moreover, we operate in a highly regulated environment. New risks emerge from time to time. It is not possible for our management to predict all risks, nor can we assess the impact of all factors on our business or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements we may make. In light of these risks, uncertainties, and assumptions, the future events and trends discussed in this release may not occur and actual results could differ materially and adversely from those anticipated or implied in the forward-looking statements, and we cannot guarantee future results, performance, or achievements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. We undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statements for any reason after the date of this release or to conform these statements to actual results or revised expectations, except as required by law.

Additional information concerning the factors above and other factors will be found in the Company’s public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), including the sections titled “Forward-Looking Statements” and “Risk Factors” in the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated July 23, 2025 filed with the SEC on July 28, 2025 and in subsequent filings with the SEC. The Company’s SEC filings are available free of charge at www.sec.gov filed or upon written request to Deep Isolation Nuclear at InvestorRelations@deepisolation.com.

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Christa Steele

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