"Russia’s nuclear energy agency has said an explosion that caused radiation levels to spike in the Arkhangelsk region was caused by an accident during a test of an “isotope power source for a liquid-fuelled rocket engine”.
In a statement released late on Friday, Rosatom said five of its employees had died as a result of the accident and three more were being treated for burns.
The statement was the first confirmation that the agency was involved in the incident, which briefly drove radiation levels up to 20 times their normal levels in the nearby city of Severodvinsk."
A little off the subject, but while overseas as part of the Iraq war the intel guys showed us several videos of IED builders who blew themselves up while building bombs. Some of the video was shot by their compatriots for some reason.
If you play with nukes, and don’t take the necessary and expensive safety precautions, you could endanger millions.
Thanks for posting this. It shows just how dangerous a world we live in. If one of the so called major world powers can have this happen, what about the countries who just want to be nuclear powers but don’t have the safety processes or the skills to do so?
I tried it in Safari myself, no go. Then safari in private mode- little more. I then switched to Puffin browser & was able to read the whole article. I think the NYT only lets you read so many of their articles in a month without a subscription.
The phrases “assured mutual destruction” and “nuclear winter” come to mind. We and Russia still possess more than enough weapons (by orders of magnitude) for those phrases to be relevant.