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1. cyberax · 1789608480 · focus · HN ↗

   One thing about salt domes: they almost by definition are surrounded by very low-permeability dry soils. Because otherwise they would have dissolved long ago!

   And a related way to use salt domes is for natural gas storage.

   1. tgsovlerkhgsel · 1789612868 · focus · HN ↗

      Another related way is to store nuclear waste. The properties (as described in this article, impermeable/self sealing etc.) sound great until the reality that water dissolves salt comes knocking and further confronts you with the reality that salty brine corrodes nuclear waste barrels...

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