360,000 LBS of Thrust - Rocket Powered Train

 

Rocket Powered Train Impact Test of Spent Nuclear Fuel Shipping Cask see restored 720hd version here: http://youtu.be/hlextDSoVkQ A marketing film made from a 1978 Archive film of Sandia National Laboratories case integrity test of a container designed to transport nuclear waste. Obviously this was the product of engineers with too much time on their hands and few extra Nike rocket motors laying around cluttering up their space. Add a few too many beers on a Friday night planning session and you now have all the ingredients for this test being conceived and conducted under the auspice of real science. Of course they could have just dropped the container from a crane or maybe even just try the train approach using the diesel motors they typically come with but where's the fun in that?