Rock Salt May Be a Leaky Garbage Bag for Nuclear Waste (1 of 4) (VIDEO)

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Here is a 3-D visualization of percolating brine network (pore fluid) in rock salt at high pressure and temperature. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 27, 2015 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by S. Ghanbarzadeh at The University of Texas at Austin in Austin, TX, and colleagues was titled, "Deformation-assisted fluid percolation in rock salt."

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Soheil Ghanbarzadeh, made with MATLAB under Academic License

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