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Cask Test - 1978
miSci - museum of innovation and science
Archival 1978 Sandia footage testing shipping containers for spent nuclear fuel, including trucks ramming walls, a locomotive hitting a truck-borne cask and a rocket-propelled train crash, plus a fire test.
Cited in nuclear power threads as proof that waste casks survive severe crashes.
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