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The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a next-generation neutrino experiment under construction in South China. JUNO has great potential to detect atmospheric neutrinos with good flavor identification capability thanks to the large-scale and high photo-coverage liquid scintillator (LS) detector. There will also be $\nu_\tau$ produced by the oscillation of the other two flavor neutrinos propagating through the earth, besides the primary atmospheric $\nu_e$ and $\nu_\mu$. The search for atmospheric $\nu_\tau$ appearance in an LS detector, which complements to that in Cerenkov detectors like Super-K, ORCA or IceCube, can provide an unambiguous confirmation of three-flavor neutrino oscillations. In the meanwhile, the measurement of the inclusive charged-current $\nu_\tau$ cross section can examine the consistency with the Standard Model prediction. This contribution will mainly focus on two parts: the study of $\nu_\tau$ interaction features in LS, and the developed methods to identify $\nu_\tau$ from atmospheric neutrino background in JUNO.
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