Overview
- 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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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.
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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