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Three officials from Italy’s National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) will face trial for allegedly overlooking environmental safety regulations at the institute’s Gran Sasso underground laboratories, a world-leading physics facility near L’Aquila, in central Italy, that hosts neutrino and dark-matter experiments. The indictments are the culmination of a long history of concerns from local communities and authorities about the labs' safety.