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Radiation up to 16 times the norm near Russia blast site
 [Dhaka Tribune] The explosion at the Arctic facility on Thursday killed five scientists with Russia's nuclear agency, which later confirmed they were involved in testing new weaponsRadiation levels were up to 16 times the norm in a nearby town after a kaboom at a Russian missile testing site, the national weather service said Tuesday. The explosion at the Arctic facility on Thursday killed five scientists with Russia's nuclear agency, which later confirmed they were involved in testing new weapons. More victims were hospitalized. Rosgidromet, the weather monitoring service, said its sensors in Severodvinsk, a town about 30km from the Nyonoksa test site, registered gamma radiation exceeding background levels by "four to 16 times." Rosgidromet said the levels were higher at six out of eight of its stations in Severodvinsk and that levels returned to normal after 2.5 hours. One of the sensors registered a level of 1.78 microsieverts per hour, well above the local average but far below dangerous levels. Russia's Rosatom nuclear agency has said its staff were providing support for the "isotope power source" of a missile and were thrown into the sea from the testing platform by the force of the earth-shattering kaboom. US experts have linked the incident to the 9M730 Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile touted by President Vladimir Putin  ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...earlier this year. Local authorities in Severodvinsk last week initially published information about the spike in radiation, but later deleted it and a local official said that radiation levels were not above the norm. US President Donald Trump  ...Oh, noze! Not him!...on Monday said the United States "is learning much" from the earth-shattering kaboom and claimed that Washington has "similar, though more advanced, technology." Related: Severodvinsk: 2019-08-09 Mayor's office of #Severodvinsk took down a report on radiation levels returning to normal Severodvinsk: 2018-08-28 Concentration of Russian ships in the eastern Mediterranean Severodvinsk: 2017-11-25 Russia Launches Its Most Advanced Ballistic Missile Sub Related: Burevestnik: 2019-08-09 Russia Is Going Fishing for a Lost Nuclear-Powered Missile Burevestnik: 2019-02-18 Source: The Petrel missile test successfully completed Posted by: Fred 2019-08-14 |
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