Europe is Building a 57KM Tunnel Through a MOUNTAIN - #32
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The TBM Tunnel Board Machine - What's the Catchment System?
In a horizontal tunnel with a TBM tunnel board machine, there's a lot of exposure on this podcast. Where does the rubble go? Does that just fall out the bottom as they're boring or does that get sort of, kind of, going to be sucked up by an air vent? How are they going to lay the interior of them? It'll be cemented on a semi. Will they drop like prefabricated sort of units in there and stack it up? Or do they have some kind of catchment system that carries it away again? I don't see a classic Liam question. We're doing this later. Bear with me. Talk about the nudist beach again
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