Nagra’s Grimsel Test Site

Enjoy a coffee at the Stein restaurant in Sachseln and then continue into the Grimsel world, where lunch awaits you at the Alpenrösli restaurant at the top of the pass. Strengthened, the tour continues to the rock laboratory. Nagra employees will explain the complex world of international deep geological repository research in a clear and concrete way. It is a journey into infinitely long periods of time - into a dimension that exceeds human imagination.

For 35 years, the National Cooperative for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste (Nagra) - together with 20 international partners from 12 countries - has been investigating all important issues relating to the safe disposal of Switzerland's radioactive waste in this tunnel system, which is over 1 kilometer long.

Suggested program

Arrival by bus to Sachseln
10.00 Coffee stop at Restaurant Stein
10.30 Onward journey to the Grimsel Pass
11.45 Lunch at Restaurant Alpenrösli
13.15 Visit to the rock laboratory
15.30 Coffee and cake at Restaurant Handeck
16.15 Return journey to the departure point