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Sandia National Laboratories: Underground Tests Dig Into How Heat Affects Salt-Bed Repository Behavior
November 04, 2021
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Nov. 4 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release:

Scientists from Sandia, Los Alamos and Lawrence Berkeley national laboratories have just begun the third phase of a years-long experiment to understand how salt and very salty water behave near hot nuclear waste containers in a salt-bed repository.

Salt's unique physical properties can be used to provide safe disposal of radioactiv . . .

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