MOSCOW: Russia's nuclear agency said on Saturday an explosion during missile testing in the Arctic left five workers dead and involved radioactive isotopes after a nearby city recorded a spike in radiation levels.
The incident occurred in the far northern Arkhangelsk region during testing of a liquid propellant jet engine when an explosion sparked a fire, killing two, a defence ministry statement said.Advertisement The missile was being tested on a platform at sea when its fuel caught fire and triggered an explosion, Rosatom said in a statement quoted on Russian television.
Professor Jeffrey Lewis of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies said his"working hypothesis" was that the blast"was related to Russia's nuclear-powered cruise missile, the 9M730 Burevestnik ."Authorities in Severodvinsk, 30 kilometres from the test site, said Thursday on their website that automatic radiation detection sensors in the city"recorded a brief rise in radiation levels" around noon that day.
Ankit Panda of the Federation of American Scientists noted on Twitter that the missile"is suspected to have some sort of a miniaturized reactor in its propulsion unit," and added:"a crash likely resulted in not-insignificant radioisotope dispersion." The radioactivity levels involved are"absolutely not comparable with those during serious accidents at reactors," he added.
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