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FY20 Update on Brine Availability Test in Salt. Revision 4

Kuhlman, Kristopher L.; Mills, Melissa M.; Jayne, Richard S.; Matteo, Edward N.; Herrick, Courtney G.; Nemer, Martin N.; Heath, Jason; Xiong, Yongliang X.; Choens, Robert C.; Stauffer, Phil; Boukhalfa, Hakim; Guiltinan, Eric; Rahn, Thom; Weaver, Doug; Dozier, Brian; Otto, Shawn; Rutqvist, Jonny; Wu, Yuxin; Hu, Mengsu; Uhlemann, Sebastian; Wang, Jiannan

This report summarizes the 2020 fiscal year (FY20) status of the borehole heater test in salt funded by the US Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy (DOE-NE) Spent Fuel and Waste Science & Technology (SFWST) campaign. This report satisfies SFWST level-two milestone number M2SF-20SNO10303032. This report is an update of an August 2019 level-three milestone report to present the final as-built description of the test and the first phase of operational data (BATS la, January to March 2020) from the Brine Availability Test in Salt (BATS) field test.