Fig. 15From: Implementation of the full-scale emplacement (FE) experiment at the Mont Terri rock laboratoryVisualisation of the prototype ‘backfilling machine’ (BFM) with its five screw conveyors (driving over an approximately 1 m diameter canister on a bentonite block pedestal) developed for backfilling the horizontal FE tunnel. The total length of the BFM (including the feeding wagon with the four bigbags containing the GBM) is 17 mBack to article page