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Cleaning up subways: Sandia’s 20-year mission to stop anthrax in its tracks
September 18, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — If you’re like most people, you don’t spend much time thinking about what would happen if anthrax was released into your local subway system.Luckily, Sandia National Laboratories engineer Mark Tucker has spent much of the past 20 years thinking abou…
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Sandia engineer Mark Tucker with a foam-covered plastic pane.

Cleaning concrete contaminated with chemicals
September 19, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – In March 1995, members of a Japanese cult released the deadly nerve agent sarin into the Tokyo subway system, killing a dozen people and injuring a thousand more. This leads to the question: What if a U.S. transportation hub was contaminated with a chemical agent? The hub...
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Chemical engineer Craig Tenney analyzes modeling results at the John B. Robert Dam