The authority hasn’t checked its air filters since the incident but expects to have results this week, she added.Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world. Men had been testing ‘new special device’ at reactor, suspected of being cruise missile Springer. Nuclear Blast Several Arkhangelsk Regional Hospital staff were later flown to Moscow for radiation testing. Exclusive: Russian Doctors Say They Weren’t Warned Patients Were Nuclear Accident Victims One doctor was reportedly later found to have a radioactive isotope in their muscle tissue. Experts in Russia and the West say the test was most likely linked to the new 9M730 Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile, called "Skyfall" by Nato. President Donald Trump said the U.S. “is learning much from the failed missile explosion in Russia” and added that “we have similar, though more advanced, technology,” without giving more details.“We’re analyzing the whole chain of events to assess both the scale of the accident and to understand its causes,” he said.A family watches an explosion at a military depot near the city of Achinsk in eastern Siberia’s Krasnoyarsk region on Aug. 5, 2019.The failed missile test that ended in an explosion killing five atomic scientists last week on Russia’s White Sea involved a small nuclear power source, according to a top official at the institute where they worked.Sergei Kiriyenko, the former head of Rosatom and Putin’s first deputy chief of staff attended the Sarov funerals and said the Russian president decided to posthumously award the men a high state honor.It caused a brief spike in radiation in the nearby port city of Severodvinsk, according to a statement on the local administration’s website that was later removed. US intelligence reports later compared the bomb to the one that the US dropped on Hiroshima.About 1 million people lived within 100 miles of the detonation at the time, but the numbers of deaths, injuries, and illnesses resulting from the incident are unknown. A Nuclear Accident at a Russian Missile Facility Killed 7 People Seven Russians are dead after the explosion, which experts say may have been caused by a test of a new nuclear-powered missile. A group of veterans said they had experienced radiation illness for years following the incident, at least until the 1990s.Sputnik/Kremlin/Alexei Druzhinin/via ReutersHere’s what we know about a handful of those incidents.The discovery marked the first time that a radioactive isotope called ruthenium-106 had been found in the atmosphere since Chernobyl.The scientists don’t consider the levels of radiation they detected to be an immediate threat to people’s health, but Steinhauser said there could be reason to monitor food safety if radiation leaked into the soil and water. Since the Soviet Union began developing nuclear technology in 1943, Russia's government has tried to keep the details about that meltdown and a handful of nuclear accidents quiet.
It is an accident,“ the deputy minister for civil aviation, Mikhail Timofeev, told reporters. Copyright © 2020 Business Insider Deutschland GmbH. The Russian military said radiation levels were normal but disclosed few details about the incident.The institute is working on small-scale power sources that use “radioactive materials, including fissile and radioisotope materials” for the Defense Ministry and civilian uses, Vyacheslav Soloviev, scientific director of the institute, said in a video shown by local TV.Southerly winds and the large distance between the border and the explosion make it unlikely that Finland will detect any radiation, Pia Vesterbacka, director at Finland’s Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, said by phone Monday.