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State Central Navy Testing Range near Nyonoksa, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russian Federation. Type. Nuclear and radiation accident. Cause. Explosive destruction of an "isotope power source" (officially). Allegedly a failed 9M730 Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile test/recovery. Deaths. 5. Nyonoksa.
- 8 August 2019; 4 years ago
- Nuclear and radiation accident
- 5
Aug 23, 2019 · Credit: Wikimedia. An accident offshore of the Nenoksa missile test site in northern Russia caused an explosion in early August that left five Russian nuclear scientists dead. Although only the Russians know what caused the explosion, some US intelligence officials and arms control experts believe the Russians were testing an engine for a ...
Aug 15, 2019 · U.S. intelligence and some independent experts have attributed a deadly radioactive explosion in Russia's Far North on August 8 to a failed test of a nuclear-propelled cruise missile capable of...
Aug 10, 2019 · The explosion, reported Thursday, occurred in Nyonoksa, a Dvina Bay port not far from the shipbuilding town of Severodvinsk, at a naval site that has been used for decades to test missiles,...
Aug 9, 2019 · The explosion, reported on August 8, occurred in the town of Nyonoksa, a Dvina Bay port not far from the shipbuilding town of Severodvinsk, at a naval site that has been used for decades to...
A testing range was set up near the village of Nyonoksa, about 1,000 kilometers (615 miles) north of Moscow on the White Sea in 1954, when the Soviet Union’s missile program was still in its nascent phase. It has served as the main ground for testing a variety of missiles used by the Soviet and then Russian navy ever since.
Aug 30, 2019 · Documents, photographs, satellite imagery, and other open-source materials reviewed by RFE/RL point strongly to an accident -- most likely underwater, or just near the surface -- as the cause of...