{"id":177586,"date":"2019-08-11T19:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T00:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/08\/11\/something-bad-happened-near-severodvinsk\/"},"modified":"2019-08-11T19:50:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T00:50:00","slug":"something-bad-happened-near-severodvinsk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/08\/11\/something-bad-happened-near-severodvinsk\/","title":{"rendered":"Something Bad Happened Near Severodvinsk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LsDOuH91LEU\" width=\"310\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>In Russian<\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/div>\n<p>There was some sort of event, <a href=\"https:\/\/nucleardiner.wordpress.com\/2019\/08\/11\/speculations-on-the-nenoksa-explosion\/\">involving a significant release of radiation, at the Nenoksa naval base<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">On the morning of Thursday, August 8, something exploded at the Nenoksa Naval Base in Russia, not far from the city of Severodvinsk. <a href=\"https:\/\/thebarentsobserver.com\/en\/security\/2019\/08\/severodvinsk-authorities-confirm-mysterious-brief-radiation-spike-after-missile\">This article<\/a> is a good summary of what we knew by Friday. Since then, the Russian government has said that a radioactive source was involved in the explosion, along with liquid rocket fuel. Reports have gone back and forth on whether radiation detectors in Severodvinsk detected anything. Five more people <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/08\/10\/world\/europe\/russia-explosion-radiation.html\">have been reported<\/a> dead. Sarov\/VNIIEF, one of the Russian nuclear weapons laboratories, has released a statement, which some folks are rushing to translate. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sbidgood\/status\/1160630505714278400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1160630505714278400&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fnucleardiner.wordpress.com%2F2019%2F08%2F11%2Fspeculations-on-the-nenoksa-explosion%2F\">translation that I have seen<\/a> of this video shows it not to be particularly informative, but it does reveal that there was an incident, and there were fatalities.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/08\/10\/world\/europe\/russia-explosion-radiation.html\">New York Times coverage<\/a> is similarly anodyne, though it does reveal a spike in radiation, albeit one that stays below recommended limits, at a nearby town.<\/p>\n<p>The indications are that this is not a nuclear warhead, both Russian and US nuclear warheads have been designed to survive things like a rocket motor explosion, so it would imply that it was a test of some sort of nuclear propulsion system, along the lines of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/9M730_Burevestnik\">9M730 Burevestnik nuclear powered cruise missile announced by Putin last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Russian There was some sort of event, involving a significant release of radiation, at the Nenoksa naval base: On the morning of Thursday, August 8, something exploded at the Nenoksa Naval Base in Russia, not far from the city of Severodvinsk. This article is a good summary of what we knew by Friday. Since &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[505,502,477,452,455],"class_list":["post-177586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-disaster","tag-nuclear-power","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-propulsion","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}