Mont-Terri underground laboratory | Switzerland

Project summary

Service provided:  High-availability experimental data acquisition system
Location:  Saint-Ursanne, Switzerland
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Client:  Mont-Terri Consortium, Swisstopo
Period of the service:  2011 - 2021
Duration of service:  10 years

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An international project

The Mont-Terri underground laboratory, managed by Swisstopo, is a research establishment near Saint-Ursanne in the canton of Jura in Switzerland. The laboratory, accessed by the Mont-Terri road tunnel, is conducting research into opalinus clay, the potential host rock for the planned storage of nuclear waste in Switzerland, in a deep geological layer.

Partners from Europe, the United States, Canada and Japan have come together to form the Mont-Terri Consortium to finance the programme and share its results.

Nearly 50 experiments are being conducted there using a large number of sensors spread over more than 800 boreholes, generating a large quantity of valuable data.

An international project

The Mont-Terri underground laboratory, managed by Swisstopo, is a research establishment near Saint-Ursanne in the canton of Jura in Switzerland. The laboratory, accessed by the Mont-Terri road tunnel, is conducting research into opalinus clay, the potential host rock for the planned storage of nuclear waste in Switzerland, in a deep geological layer.

Partners from Europe, the United States, Canada and Japan have come together to form the Mont-Terri Consortium to finance the programme and share its results.

Nearly 50 experiments are being conducted there using a large number of sensors spread over more than 800 boreholes, generating a large quantity of valuable data

 

Project Key figures

5 100 measurement points in Geoscope
700 m of tunnel
800 boreholes