1978 Tests of Spent Nuclear Fuel Shipping Casks

miSci - museum of innovation and science · Demo · 3 min · 2012 · YouTube title: Cask Test - 1978

Why it's here

Cited in nuclear power threads as proof that waste casks survive severe crashes.

What it covers

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.