360,000 LBS of Thrust - Rocket Powered Train
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- Опубликовано: 24 апр 2008
- Rocket Powered Train Impact Test of Spent Nuclear Fuel Shipping Cask
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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?
www.sandia.gov/vqsec/SON-ST.html
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-"We're going to need another 2 miles of track to get this train up to speed, Frank."
-"Forget all that hassle, Joseph. We'll just add some rockets. It'll reach 80 mph in no time!"
And it sure did.
Can't be serious 🤣🤣🤣🤣
A train going 80MPH has immense energy stored. The impact is amazing.
Do you want to lay several more miles of track for the engine to be able to reach speed, or just use rockets to get there a whole helluva lot faster? Rockets! More fun too...
MURICA!!! FUCK YEAH!!!
"How do we know this will thing wont break apart and spew radioactive materials every where?"
"good point hmm... I've got it! we'll slam a train into it!"
"You sir are a fucking genius!"
It doesn't look like it reached its intended speed to me.
Whoa, this sounds dangerous! A rocket powered locomotive hitting a truck @ 80MPH kind of sounds like AWVR 777 in Unstoppable, but 777 hasn't have a rocket powered engine. There's a scene in the movie where 777 smashes through a freight car that AWVR 1206 had on the end of it. Man that last car was completely Vaporized!
This was to test the plut tank integrity, and reaction to extreme situations.
Rocket powered train!!!! I want one. At least when I leave for work at 6:AM the neighbors
Best.
That's awesome, I've totally delivered products to Sandia Labs on a flat bed. Brought them granite from Cali to supposedly test hammers with but even a truck driver knows there is uranium in granite.
@uswine The rockets are also meant to simulate the momentum of a fully loaded train. An unloaded train has several orders of magnitude less energy than a loaded train. Adding the rocket can help to transfer a larger amount of energy throughout the collision than the unloaded train engine alone.
This is what I need to get me through the London traffic.!
the top design speed is listed as 70 mph ... though for a final run i could imagine that you might squeeze more out of it being unconcerned about damage done to the drive-train or engine. The most important thing yo remember here is that this test group at Sandia only does testing with rockets strapped on ... that's all they do. If there was an easier way to attain 80 mph it would not have mattered .... because they would have strapped a rocket on it regardless
@speaker police, the locomotive was an ALCo MRS-1
That was pretty cool. I wish i could have one.
Also i would hate to be the gut that is at the end of the video that is filming the train coming at him.
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And the DeLorean STILL made it back to the future!
gives a whole new meaning to swoosh-tika logo lol