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Sanford Underground Research Lab Preparing Major Expansion

Sanford Underground Research Lab Preparing Major Expansion

Connie Walter Photo: WNAX


Science continues at the Sanford Underground Research Facility, with a major expansion coming soon.
Lab Communications Director Connie Walter says the next steps involve at least two research projects…

Walter says there is international interest and cooperation…

Walter says it will be a big construction job…

Walter says they are now operating at the forty-eight hundred fifty-foot level in the former Homestake Mine in Lead. She says they have about one hundred forty-five full time employees.
Walter spoke to the Interchange Club in Yankton.

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