36 Railcars Buried Alive at America's Most Toxic Site (1965) - We Checked
On the morning of May 9, 2017, the ground above a buried railroad tunnel at the Hanford nuclear site sank without warning, and thousands of workers were ordered to take cover. Under that soil sat eight railcars loaded with the hottest equipment in America, sealed in the dark since 1965. This is the verified story of the train America buried alive, and what happened when its roof finally gave way. New here? We publish verified heavy-equipment history several times a week. Subscribe so you never miss a story: 👉 Machinery Vault: / @machinery-vault We trace the full life of the PUREX railroad tunnels: why the plutonium plant's failed equipment could never be boxed and removed, how a remote-controlled locomotive pushed 36 railcars into two buried tunnels between 1960 and 1996, the 1980 government warning that predicted the collapse almost to the letter, the 2017 emergency response, and the 46,000 cubic yards of grout that entombed the trains where they stand. Two survivors of Hanford's contaminated rail fleet sit on public display at the B Reactor today. We checked, and every claim in this film is tagged verified or flagged honestly where official accounts differ. 📌 CHAPTERS 00:00 Take Cover: The Morning the Ground Gave Way 02:26 The Atomic City and the PUREX Plant 04:10 A Train No Human Could Ride (1960–1965) 08:10 The 1980 Warning and the 2017 Collapse 11:18 Entombed in Concrete: What's Still Down There SOURCES DOE Hanford: PUREX Tunnels Fact Sheet (Jan 2020) — https://www.hanford.gov/files.cfm/PUR... DOE Richland: PUREX Tunnels Briefing, T. Teynor (2017) — https://www.hanford.gov/files.cfm/Att... NW News Network: Digging Into The History Of Hanford's Radioactive Waste Tunnels — https://www.nwnewsnetwork.org/disaste... #heavyequipment #machinery #engineering #constructionhistory #documentary #caterpillar #hanford #nuclearhistory #manhattanproject
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