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What if?

A simple question with huge implications. Let’s explore the role of risk in the plans for the deep geological repository – and in all of our lives.

Risk alert!

Building a repository for radioactive waste? Speeding down a slope at 100 mph? Working in the middle of a war zone? Defusing bombs?

The first thing that comes to mind in all of these scenarios is… risk. And that’s exactly what we’re exploring from all angles in this issue of our Magazine of the Century ‘500m+’. We unpick the concept, identify the biggest potential threats to humanity and consider how we respond to risk on a cultural level, as a society and individually. Plus, we also take a closer look at how the big question – “What if?” – impacts the work we do here at Nagra.

To the articles

Defining risk

What is risk? What is the best approach to managing risk? And who is to say what is right? An attempt to create order.

Introducing: Anna Haifisch

The Leipzig-based artist illustrated this issue of “500m+”.

Existential risks

Risk researcher Lord Martin Rees is particularly concerned about dependence on global networks.

One risk after another

The greatest risks to humanity – and to Switzerland. A list.

Homo periculans

What shapes our risk behaviour? A search for clues leading back to the beginnings of mankind.

Living with risk

What does “occupational risk” mean in the everyday lives of people with risky jobs? Five portraits.

Does bravado pay off?

Business psychologist Christian Fichter on the relationship between business and risk, the importance of gut feeling and AI.

The risks are the lowest risk

In the Mont Terri Rock Laboratory, Nagra is conducting research on the deep geological disposal of Switzerland’s radioactive waste. The repository must remain safe for one million years. What if the researchers have overlooked something?

How do I develop risk competence?

Matthias Holenstein, CEO of the Risk Dialogue Foundation (Stiftung Risiko-Dialog), gives advice on how we can take action despite major challenges.

Worth the risk

We gave Leipzig-based illustrator Anna Haifisch full creative freedom. Check out all the potential dangers she imagines could exist in the deep geological repository.

Earlier issues

A project of the century needs a magazine of the century: Nagra launched “500m+” to accompany the public debate surrounding the deep geological repository over the next 100 years. It plans to publish one issue per year.

Issue #4/2025

Issue #3/2024

Issue #2/2023

Issue #1/2022

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