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Paul Scherrer Institut |
The Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) is a Swiss multi-disciplinary research centre for natural sciences and technology with a staff of approximately 1,200.
Research at the Institute is conducted in national and international collaboration programs with universities, other research institutes and the industry, and covers various research fields:
- solid state physics
- material sciences
- elementary particle physics
- life sciences
- nuclear and non-nuclear energy research
- energy-related ecology.
The Waste Management Laboratory of PSI contributes to the safety assessment of repositories for all kinds of radioactive wastes, through an understanding of environmental processes and mechanisms relating to interactions and transport of heavy metals in natural systems.
The emphasis of its research, in which there is tight co-operation between experimentalists and modellers, lies on:
- fundamental geochemistry
- speciation
- sorption
- radionuclide transport.
In addition, PSI is the only research institute in Switzerland with an infrastructure to handle larger amounts of actinides.
For more information: http://www.psi.ch/index_e.shtml and http://les.web.psi.ch.
Address
Paul Scherrer Institut
Obua/2
ch-5232 Villigen PSI
Switzerland
Contactperson(s)
Jörg HADERMANN
+41 (0) 56 310 24 15
+41 (0) 56 310 28 21
