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- On Thursday afternoon, officials in the northern Russia city of Severodvinsk detected a brief rise in radiation levels following an explosion at a military training ground, Russian state news agency TASS reports. Kseniya Yudina, a spokeswoman for Severodvinsk, said the "brief rise of the radiation level was registered...at about noon."
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Aug 19, 2019 · Reports later that day by Regnum and other Russian media outlets immediately cast doubt on the Defense Ministry’s claim. [6] Many quoted Rosgidromet [7] online reports that ASKRO [8] had detected gamma radiation levels around Arkhangelsk four to sixteen times above normal background levels.
Yuri Peshkov from the Roshidromet, the Russian meteorology service, stated that background radiation levels peaked at 4–16 times normal levels at six of its eight stations in Severodvinsk, 47 kilometres (29 mi) to the east, reaching 1.78 microsieverts per hour shortly after the explosion, but returned to normal levels 2.5 hours after the ...
Aug 13, 2019 · According to Rosgidromet, 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...
Aug 8, 2019 · Radiation levels peaked between 11:50 and 12:30 (08:50-09:30 GMT) before falling and normalising by 14:00, the city administration in Severodvinsk said on its website, without reporting how...
Aug 26, 2019 · (CBC News) It has previously said that the peak radiation reading in Severodvinsk on Aug. 8 briefly reached 1.78 microsieverts per hour in just one neighbourhood — about 16 times the average....
Aug 26, 2019 · The authorities reported a rise in radiation levels in nearby Severodvinsk, but insisted it didn’t pose any danger.
Aug 13, 2019 · In its statement published by the state news agency TASS, Rosgidromet cited data collected by a northern regional monitoring agency, saying that gamma radiation levels jumped by 4 to 16 times...
