Putin says scientists killed in nuclear explosion
were testing 'most advanced' weapons: report
Fox News,
by
Brie Stimson
&
Travis Fedschun
Original Article
Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk,
11/22/2019 6:51:56 AM
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said that the five scientists killed in a nuclear explosion in the northwestern part of the country last August were working on the “most advanced and unparalleled” weapons in the world.
Putin was speaking to relatives of the fallen men during a televised state awards ceremony at the Kremlin, assuring them that the scientists had been doing “critically important” work, The independent Moscow Times reported.
Putin didn’t specify the weapons, but U.S. defense officials believe it was what Russians call the 9M730 Burevestnik missile, which NATO has designated the SSC-X-9 Skyfall.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
coyote 11/22/2019 8:08:10 AM (No. 241947)
Well, I guess it's back to the drawing board, eh Pouty
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
foxglove 11/22/2019 8:30:54 AM (No. 241980)
Could it be that Putin considers all involved useful idiots?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 11/22/2019 8:50:37 AM (No. 242004)
Right... probably a worn out piece of equipment failed as a result of not being serviced properly, since 1968.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
GO3 11/22/2019 8:59:44 AM (No. 242018)
I'm not buying the nuclear explosion part. Big difference in testing a delivery system and the warhead, and if the delivery system was being tested a dummy warhead would have been used. A nuclear explosion would have been monitored by us and if true would have been national level press conference worthy. It's also possible that if a real warhead was used and the missile blew up, radioactive material could have been scattered over a large area, hence the radiation spike. We lost four bombs when a B-52 and a tanker blew up over Palomares, Spain in the early 60s. One of them that hit the ground and the conventional explosive detonated and scattered nuclear material over a wide area, but there was no nuclear detonation. We had to remiate a big chunk of land around the town.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 11/22/2019 11:02:51 AM (No. 242177)
The Russkies are notoriously careless when it comes to nuclear research, handling radioactive material, and implementing emergency procedures. Look what happened at Chernobyl. Back in the fifties, one of their reactors blew up; they sent laborers (probably prisoners) into the reactor building to scrape plutonium off the walls. Of course, they all died quickly after that, but it wasn’t a big deal to those in power...
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 11/22/2019 11:17:59 AM (No. 242195)
"Most advanced" weapon? No, a clearly incompetently done rehash of a US design from the late 50s.
Our design, developed in Project Pluto, was tested, and which WORKED, but which we abandoned because it released a lot of radiation from the exhaust of the nuclear powered ramjet design, so was irresponsible to
test or use.
A completely irresponsible, dangerous radiation spewing (in "normal" operation) design concept, and anyone going beyond basic testing is planning on spewing radioactive waste in the wake of each and every missile. Keep in mind, this is the nuclear propulsion system, and the released radioactive material has nothing at all to do with the payload, which could be anything, conventional or nuclear.
Let's hope that they stop this madness at killing their own people, and contaminating their own country.
Massively irresponsible, but then again, this is Putin - and he is entirely remoseless and entirely ethics free.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 11/22/2019 11:28:29 AM (No. 242210)
#5, it was a explosion which spread nuclear reactor fuel around, but not a "nuclear weapon explosion". The nuclear ramjet design uses an unshielded nuclear reactor to heat incoming air to high temperatures, which increases it's pressure. This hot, and now radioactive air is ejected from the rear, providing thrust. range is very long since it makes thrust as long as the reactor is hot, which is likely weeks or months, maybe even years.
Since this apparently exploded when moved, it likely was a steam explosion with sea water coming in contact with the super hot reactor surfaces and (probably) steam pressure blowing it all apart, with radioactive material spread far and wide, but probably not a nuclear fission explosion such as in a nuclear weapon.
The Chernobyl blast was a nuclear reactor burning and exploding "chemically" but which spread the nuclear, radioactive material widely - again no "nuclear weapon" effect, but explosions and fire which spread nuclear materials around.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
GO3 11/22/2019 1:48:06 PM (No. 242362)
#8, yeah, got it. But the Fox News folks should clarify in the first paragraph.
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More "scary" information, finally released by Russia about a nuclear event they originally attempted to cover-up.
"Putin Says ‘Unparalleled’ Weapons Tested at Deadly Nuclear Accident Site"
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/11/22/putin-says-unparalleled-weapons-tested-at-deadly-nuclear-accident-site-a68274
FTA: "A liquid propulsion system blast on Aug. 8 at a naval missile test facility in Nyonoksa in Arkhangelsk region killed five people and led to a brief radiation spike nearby. (Snip) "Four of Russia’s nuclear radiation monitoring stations went silent days after the explosion, and doctors in the region said they weren’t warned that they were treating patients who had been exposed to radiation. Reports later said the deadly explosion occurred during a mission to salvage a lost Burevestnik missile from a previous test.'
Russia putting out "fake news"? Who knew?