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Full-scale High Level Waste Engineered Barriers (FEBEX)
FEBEX I - In-Situ Testing - Layout and Testing

The "in-situ" test is being performed in a drift which was excavated in the northern zone of the Grimsel Test Site.


Location of the FEBEX experiment

 

The physical components of the test consist of five basic units:

  1. the drift,
  2. the heating system,
  3. the clay barrier,
  4. the instrumentation
  5. the monitoring and control system.


Tomography of Febex area

 

 
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