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#DidYouKnow that the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment is the largest neutrino experiment ever undertaken? The DUNE far detectors will be installed in the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility a mile underground in new, massive caverns recently excavated in Lead, South Dakota, at Sanford Underground Research Facility. With excavation finished, 2025 work centered on outfitting the underground research space with essential infrastructure such as power and utilities. This year, more than 3,000 tons of steel for DUNE’s far detectors arrived in South Dakota. An in-kind contribution from CERN, the steel will form the structures for the experiment’s cryostat modules that will house the far detectors, each measuring 216 feet long, 62 feet wide and 60 feet high. Learn more at https://lbnf-dune.fnal.gov #DUNEscience #Fermilab #physics #neutrino #engineering