Posted on 08/09/2019 5:51:44 AM PDT by C19fan
A radiation spike in Russia on Thursday may have been caused when one of Vladimir Putin's top secret Zircon hypersonic missiles exploded during tests, reports in the country have claimed today.
Radiation levels temporarily soared 20 times above the normal level in Severodvinsk, a city 18 miles from the weapons testing site at Nyonoksa, according to Greenpeace citing the Russian Emergencies Ministry.
Moscow has thrown a veil of secrecy over the incident yesterday in the sub-Arctic Arkhangelsk region, which left two dead and reportedly sparked 'panic' and 'hysteria' among residents and a rush to buy iodine from pharmacies.
One report, from an online news source, suggested six people injured in the mysterious military accident had suffered serious radiation doses as well as injuries from an explosion. Footage has emerged showing casualties being transported by men in protective suits.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
six people injured in the mysterious military accident had suffered serious radiation doses ...
They’re done.
Another report cited a “slight increase” in radiation.
Wait...did they have an actual nuclear warhead on that thing???/
Summers are short in Siberia. Get all your testing done now.
Nuclear Ramjets are a thing:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/03/best-bad-idea-ever-why-putins-nuclear-powered-missile-is-possible-and-awful/3/
Who is that?
Stanton Friedman.
click on "Search google for image"
Response in Google is:
Possible related search: stanton t friedman
Being hit by a few kilowatts of microwaves can boil your insides and kill you, but that is far different than something radioactive.
Stanton Friedman. Noted UFO guy, who just happened to get there by way of working on nuclear powered aircraft and rockets.
He broke is own rice bowl when he announced nuclear powered flight was not safe and could never be made safe.
Case in point, this Zircon explosion.
He also noted that the crew of a nuclear powered bomber would receive a lethal dose of radiation on a flight to the Soviet Union, as well as contaminating a swath of land the full length of the flight...
“Another report cited a “slight increase” in radiation.”
Juussst a bit outside.
rwood
Another high quality Russian product fail smoke test who knew.
Thanks for the article. Coincidentally I was just talking to a guy in the local rural dinner two hours ago about hydralic and flexible hoses. His hoses on the field sprayer truck booms kept blowing (15 gallons) and I told him to make sure when they were installed to always keep them in a single plane. I introduced the concept of ‘squrim’ plates to him. The picture of the Tory-IIA Nuclear ramjet test reactor was an excellent example. There were only a couple of hoses in that picture that were ran incorrectly.
When I first met the guy he asked me if I was Amish, lol. Coincidentally, Jack Hope, one of those champions on the GE nuclear engine project in being honored at the local historical society next week for his work.
I don’t see nuclear power as viable for aircraft. Too heavy. Just like electric airplanes make no sense because batteries are too heavy per unit of energy stored.
“Radiation? What type was it?”
Well it exploded so there was most likely some infrared radiation.
The radiating kind.
“I don’t see nuclear power as viable for aircraft. Too heavy. Just like electric airplanes make no sense because batteries are too heavy per unit of energy stored.”
I have talked to engineers that worked on the program and your exactly right. If you need a plane that can fly around the world non stop 3 times then it would be cost effective. But since that is pointless then nuke planes made no sense. Maybe someday if we can make the reactor drastically lighter... but probably not even then. And like you said, for electric planes we need another order of magnitude reduction in battery weight. Maybe someday.
Zircon? So, it’s a fake missile.
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