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Mont Terri Rock Laboratory, 20 Years

Two Decades of Research and Experimentation on Claystones for Geological Disposal of Radioactive Waste

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  • Presents main results over 20 years of research in an underground rock laboratory in claystone
  • Well-illustrated examples of the different stages of repository evolution
  • The reader gets an excellent overview and never loses the common thread of the rather complex thematic
  • Contains invaluable data and information relevant to fundamental problems
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Swiss Journal of Geosciences Supplement (SWISSGEO, volume 5)

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

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The international Mont Terri rock laboratory in Switzerland plays a central role in the safety and construction of deep geological nuclear repositories in clay formations. The laboratory has developed and refined a range of new measurement and evaluation methods: it has e.g. advanced the determination of rock parameters using innovative borehole geophysics, improved the methodology for characterizing pore-water and microbial activity in claystones, and greatly improved our understanding of diffusion and retention processes of radionuclides in and through claystones. The methods and insights described in this compendium can also be applied to low-permeability rocks at various sites around the globe, and in other fields of application.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Swiss Geological Survey Swisstopo , Wabern, Switzerland

    Paul Bossart

  • Swiss Federal Inst. of Tech. ETH Zurich , Zürich, Switzerland

    Alan Geoffrey Milnes

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Mont Terri Rock Laboratory, 20 Years

  • Book Subtitle: Two Decades of Research and Experimentation on Claystones for Geological Disposal of Radioactive Waste

  • Editors: Paul Bossart, Alan Geoffrey Milnes

  • Series Title: Swiss Journal of Geosciences Supplement

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70458-6

  • Publisher: Birkhäuser Cham

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-70457-9Published: 08 January 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88940-5Published: 06 June 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-70458-6Published: 20 December 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2297-508X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2297-511X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 422

  • Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations, 248 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Geology, Geophysics/Geodesy, Mineralogy

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