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good reason to make a change.

And so I went ahead and did a geochemistry degree in looking at metal mobility in the subsurface.

So in essence, I came to the Idaho National Laboratory in the early 1990s to work on uranium immobility, immobilizing metals that had been released to the ecosystem through poor practices and other things that were not as big a concern back in the Cold War.

So as I came into the system, I came in as a frustrated miner.

who worked at the lab to clean up.

In a lot of cases, I worked on mine sites to help immobilize the metals to do the cleanup around them and also to immobilize DOE metals of concern, including uranium.

How do you guys fit into this ecosystem? Are you guys predominantly then working as advisors or consultants with energy companies or mines or both? What does a typical year look like for you and your