EVERYTHING WE KNOW ABOUT RUSSIA’S NUCLEAR “SKYFALL” MISSILE AND THAT MYSTERIOUS EXPLOSION...POSSIBLY BIGGER THAN CHERNOBYL

The local city of Severodvinsk (pop. 185,000) announced a “short-term” spike in radiation levels immediately after the incident on Thursday. But the post on its municipal web-site was gone by the next day.

Greenpeace said data collected by Russia’s Emergencies Ministry showed a spike 20 times higher than normal levels in Severodvinsk, and demanded Russian authorities release more information about whether local residents face any threat to their health.

“Bigger than Chernobyl”? Wow...hyperbole much? How is this even close? Yes, we should continue to investigate and report on this accident, but this is the equivalent of a single sparkler vs. a Fourth of July spectacular.

5 Russian nuclear engineers buried after rocket explosion

Thousands of Russians attended the funerals Monday of five Russian nuclear engineers killed by an explosion as they tested a new rocket, a tragedy that fueled radiation fears and raised new questions about a secretive weapons program.
The engineers, who died Thursday, were laid to rest Monday in Sarov, which hosts Russia’s main nuclear weapons research center, where they worked. Flags flew at half-staff in the closed city, 230 miles east of Moscow, which has served as a base for Russia’s nuclear weapons program since the late 1940s.

The coffins were displayed at Sarov’s main square before being driven to a cemetery.

The Defense Ministry initially said the explosion at the navy’s testing range in Nyonoksa in the northwestern Arkhangelsk region killed two people and injured six others, but the state-controlled Rosatom nuclear concern acknowledged over the weekend that the blast also killed five of its workers and injured three others.

Rosatom director Alexei Likhachev praised the victims as “true heroes” and “a pride of our country.”

“Our further work on new weapons that we will certainly complete will be the best tribute to them,” Likhachev said during the funeral, according to Rosatom. “We will fulfill the motherland’s orders and fully protect its security.”

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But this could be a bigger health risk than Chernobyl, depending on the isotope involved and how far it was dispersed. For example, what if the missile was in flight and there was an air burst explosion?

Gtotta love the Ruskies.

To celebrate the doom of the 5 that died they are gonna really knuckle down now and PERFECT THE DOOM even more.

Yay for DOOM.

It always wins.

No, we do not love the Russians for developing hideously dangerous weapons such as these.