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Summary of the Brine Availability Test in Salt (BATS), Including Extended Plan for Experiments at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP)

Kuhlman, Kristopher L.; Mills, Melissa M.; Choens II, Robert C.; Herrick, Courtney G.; Otto, Shawn; Davis, Jon; Stauffer, Philip H.; Wu, Yuxin

This document lays out a set of near-future investigations in salt, the third phase of BATS (BATS 3). This phase is planned to answer the few remaining issues from the first two phases of BATS (BATS 1 and BATS 2), and to prepare for a subsequent large-scale demonstration phase. The BATS experiments are the first part of a larger plan to conduct field experiments to answer specific technical questions, improve the technical basis for disposal of heat-generating radioactive waste in salt (Stauffer et al., 2015; SNL et al., 2020), and demonstrate readiness for disposal of radioactive waste in salt, including large, hot waste packages.