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Re:The race is on to develop new strategies for storing nucl... by jackweirdy on Friday August 02, 2019 @07:52AM (#20592287)
This makes me think of this video of a 1984 demonstration of a freight train deliberately crashing directly into a container of nuclear material

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY446h4pZdc

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Re:The race is on to develop new strategies for storing nucl... by Skye on Friday August 02, 2019 @10:16AM (#20593087)
It seems to be a diesel locomotive pulling passenger carriages (almost certainly ones that were obsolete at the time).

It's still a pretty impressive way to show how strong they are...

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