Brine Availability Test in Salt (BATS) (FY25 Final Closeout)

Technical Report · Mon Jul 07 04:00:00 EDT 2025

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/2585529· OSTI ID:2585529

Kuhlman, Kristopher L. ^[1]; Mills, Melissa Marie ^[1]; Choens, Robert Charles ^[1]; Stauffer, Philip H. ^[2]; Otto, Shawn ^[2]; Davis, Jon ^[2]; Wu, Yuxin ^[3]; Chen, Hang ^[3]; Luo, Linquing ^[3]

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1. Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
2. Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

This fiscal year 2025 (FY25) closeout report summarizes the final experiments conducted and data collected in phase 2 of the Brine Availability Test in Salt (BATS 2). The design and interpretation of the test was previously funded by the US Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy (DOE-NE) Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition Program, under the Disposal Research and Development (R&D) program of the Office of Spent Fuel & Waste Science and Technology (SFWST) but they are not funding it anymore (since May 2025). The experiment was located underground at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), southeastern New Mexico, which is a DOE Office of Environmental Management (DOE-EM) site managed by the Carlsbad Field Office (CBFO). DOE-EM funds the WIPP Test Coordination Office (TCO), which provided critical implementation support for the continued execution of BATS. A high-level summary of processes expected in a salt repository are given in Kuhlman & Mills (2025).

• Research Organization: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE), Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition
• DOE Contract Number: NA0003525
• OSTI ID: 2585529
• Report Number(s): SAND--2025-08175R; 1782475
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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