There are different sponsorship options
Program Sponsors
Program Sponsors are organizations from the public and private sectors that are supportive and committed to the aims of the DBD Center and willing collaboratively to provide the core funding needed to successfully sustain a multi-year, multi-stakeholder demonstration program.
Program Sponsors fund the organizational infrastructure needed to manage the DBD and the central activity needed to support the Deep Borehole Demonstration Program.
Project Sponsors
The Deep Borehole Demonstration Program Plan is a multi-year, multi-stakeholder program of projects. The bulk of funds to drive demonstration activities and projects will come from individual or groups of sponsors with specifically aligned interests and project plans.
Project Sponsors can be any organization or group of organizations that wish to provide funding for an individual demonstration project conducted at the Center.
"This is the beginning of being able to offer countries a new option: a deep borehole repository. This gives countries an alternative, and in some cases, boreholes could also work alongside mined repositories for particular waste streams, such as from advanced reactors. The Deep Borehole Demonstration Center will allow multinational and cross-organizational collaborations to begin the work of characterizing the entire system. This is how we get to the next stage.”
— TED GARRISH, Former Assistant Secretary for International Affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy