{"id":47718,"date":"2019-08-11T06:49:23","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T11:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47718"},"modified":"2019-08-11T06:49:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T11:49:26","slug":"chernobyl-style-cover-up-run-on-iodine-pills-after-isotope-powered-rocket-explosion-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47718","title":{"rendered":"Chernobyl-Style Cover Up? Run On Iodine Pills After “Isotope Powered” Rocket Explosion In Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Chernobyl-Style\u00a0Cover Up? Run On Iodine Pills After “Isotope Powered” Rocket\u00a0Explosion In Russia<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Is Russia in the process of covering up a nuclear accident after a confirmed<\/strong><\/a> spike in radiation levels<\/strong> in the aftermath of a reported rocket engine explosion at a northern testing facility Thursday? Authorities confirmed the accident involved an<\/a> \u201cisotope power source for a liquid-fuelled rocket engine\u201d.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia’s state nuclear agency has said five of its staff members were killed at a military testing site in northern Russia, reportedly when the liquid propellant rocket engine exploded during tests on a sea platform. Some reports say it may have involved a top secret weapon that was part of Moscow’s hypersonic arsenal<\/strong>. Russia is pursuing hypersonic missiles as a nuclear deterrent, as Putin himself has recently verbalized. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other staff were being treated for serious burns after the accident; however, as\u00a0Reuters\u00a0<\/em>reported,\u00a0there’s a run on iodine<\/strong>\u00a0(used to reduce the effects of radiation exposure) in\u00a0the northern port cities of Arkhangelsk and Severodvinsk, near where the mystery accident occurred.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Local Russian media photo being widely circulated showing emergency response unites in full chemical protective suits.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEveryone has been calling asking about iodine all day,<\/strong><\/em>\u201d one pharmacy was quoted as saying by a local media outlet in Arkhangelsk area, Reuters reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday’s mystery incident came two days after 16,500 people fled their homes when a separate immensely powerful series of blasts rocked an arms depot in Siberia<\/strong>, which had been caught in dramatic footage<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And in a follow-up report to Thursday’s mystery incident, Reuters pointed out initial emergency alert statements about a rise in radiation levels have been scrubbed from public record<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…authorities in the nearby city of Severodvinsk reported what they described as a brief spike in radiation. No official explanation has been given for why such an accident would cause radiation to spike.<\/strong><\/p>

The radiation statement put out by the city of Severodvinsk disappeared from the Internet on Friday without explanation<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Chernobyl-Style\u00a0Cover Up? Run On Iodine Pills After “Isotope Powered” Rocket\u00a0Explosion In Russia Is Russia in the process of covering up a nuclear accident after a confirmed spike in radiation levels in the aftermath of a reported rocket engine explosion at a northern testing facility Thursday? Authorities confirmed the accident involved an \u201cisotope power source for a liquid-fuelled rocket engine\u201d. Russia’s state nuclear […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2142,683],"class_list":["post-47718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-radiation","tag-reuters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47719,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47718\/revisions\/47719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}