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Originally Posted by gazzae
There was a program on ages ago about crash tests. I remember they were doing tests like a train crashing to one of the containers they use to transport nuclear waste.
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O/T for this thread, but that "test" was actually pretty damn worthless!
The train had a very soft nose, the container was not placed in a situation where there was any resistance to movement (eg a bridge pier, tunnel wall or other such objects), the train "rode up" over the container after the initial impact etc, all of these were *not* representative of the sort of situation container like this could face in a real accident.
See
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/hentis/Opsma****.html for details.
EDIT: Oh, ye gods! The link is supposed to say "Op smash it" but it's been censored because there's four letters that spell something rude!
