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Salt core

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Melissa Mills, left, a Sandia National Laboratories geochemist, and Kristopher Kuhlman a Sandia geoscientist, display salt samples from their Waste Isolation Pilot Plant experimental site. They have just begun the third phase of a yearslong basic science experiment to understand how salt and very salty water behave near hot nuclear waste containers in a salt-bed repository.

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