Nuclear Flask Train Crash Test - BBC News 1984

A BBC News report of the nuclear flask train crash test at the British Rail test track near Old Dalby in Leicestershire on 17th July 1984.

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• flask
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[EmmaLovelace]

They should have redone the test and let the Greenpeace lot ride on the train.

[vejet]

they don't 'crumple' like a car when they collide into something. It was a 6 axle loco, if they weren't serious they would of used a 4 axle loco. The flask was also struck with the strongest part of the loco. Then theres the 'Engine being unbolted'. Even IF thats true, it doesn't change the fact that you have over 300 tons of steel impacting on the flask at 100mph and it survived. You don't need to be Einstein to realize that the kinetic energy released in that kind of collision is fuckin huge.

[toyo671]

It's about time we got a few Nuclear Power Stations built before the Coal runs out. As for the Wind Turbines, they are a complete waste of time. It takes Thousands of them to power even a small Town. The Wind doesn't blow all the time after all . Also if the Wind is too strong the Turbine Blades are feathered to stop the things collapsing. Let's have a bright and Glowing Future. Keep all the lights on with lovely clean Green Nuclear Power. Let's make Britain Great Again!!

[antares4141]

Greenpiece argument is kind of stupid cause no (accidental) train crash is ever going to be anywhere nearly as destructive so from the aspect of transport the test more than proves a reasonable amount of saftey. I might want to follow that up with explosives but I'm guessing the reason they didn't do this is the container would fail.

[jubileehands]

John Baker-"I think anybody who considered that would be only trying to get into the comic strips" - brilliant reply!!! Sad end for the peak, but then again, it was only going to be scrapped anyway :( Does anybody know if the carriages were scrapped as well?

[TessaJanitaxe474]

mmh Im a student living by herself

[1madaboutguitar]

@AppleOfGlasgow Shutup

[colliecandle]

@rbrownlie91 I think its YOU talking 'shite' as you so 'eloquently' put it! How can radiation, which is admitted to be many THOUSANDS of times WORSE than Chernobyl be considered 'safe' Are you totally retarded? What of those 50 men who were sent in to estimate just what happened directly after the event ? You think THEY are still alive? Or that they wont die very soon? You need to remove your head from your anal cavity

[Panjetani]

@B0B78422 - Er, your relative is pulling your leg. I was an apprentice at REME Old Dalby at the time and watched the crash live as it happened from the hillside at the rear of the depot. Colonel Keist gave us an extended lunch hour to see it. You weren't allowed to take cameras into the site at any time without permission (PC 'Blackbeard' would have dabbed you on the gate if you had!) so no-one inside the site took any photos or cine film. There was no nuclear spillage & the tank was fine.

[juniormorini]

em 1:20 min. eles quiseram pôr uma imagem como se o trem estivesse indo bater, mas tem um maquinista dentro! que pior! Para despejar todo o peso do impacto eles teriam que pôr um anteparo rígido o suficiente para suportar o impacto, como um vagão carregado de pedras. Como ficou solto, o contâiner pulou como uma bola sendo chutada! Pura pirotecnia!

[colliecandle]

This is laughable ! First Chernobyl (killed million + with radiation sickness) and then Fukishima (STILL melting down and releasing vast quantities of radioactive shit) will kill MANY more globally and far worse than Chernobyl and NOW America nuclear plant in trouble !

[pyronathanpyro]

fuck greenpiece fucking bellends