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Underground Laboratory at Mol, Belgium. (Photo credit: Mol (HADES))
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Belgium´s Underground "Hot" Lab
8 June 2005: In a laboratory 230 meters beneath the earth in Belgium, scientists are studying how to safely dispose of highly radioactive waste. Some of the experiments they monitor have run for two decades in an underground rock laboratory at Mol (HADES), in the country´s North.