⚡️⚡️🇳🇴☢️🇷🇺 #Норвегия зафиксировала скачок радиации на границе с Россией, — Barents Observer

Как сообщает DSA, в пробах двух станций радиационного наблюдения — Викшёфьелль и Сванховд — были обнаружены следы цезия-137 — радиоактивного изотопа, который выделяется при распаде урана-235, входящего в топливо для атомных реакторов и «начинку» для ядерного оружия.

Радиоактивный изотоп был обнаружен в период с 9 по 12 сентября на станциях, близких к норвежско-российской границе; другие посты радиационного наблюдения — на севере Норвегии и в Лапландии — его не зафиксировали

▫️В Баренцевом море работают несколько российских атомных ледоколов, а также атомные подлодки, которые с 16 сентября вышли на крупнейшие со времен холодной войны учения «Океан-2024». Тем не менее, маловероятно, чтобы «утечка» цезия-137 произошла на работающем реакторе в море, полагают эксперты.

▫️Другая возможность может быть связана с разработкой или испытаниями российской ракеты с ядерным двигателем «Буревестник». Полигон для ее запуска находится на архипелаге Новая Земля, где СССР вплоть до 1990 года проводил ядерные испытания.

📌Напомним, что две недели назад Reuters обнаружил пусковую площадку для ракет с ядерным двигателем «Буревестник» в 475 км к северу от Москвы

📌Напомним также, что самая известная ядерная катастрофа, которой закончились испытания Буревестника, случилась в 2019 на полигоне «Нёнокса» под Северодвинском, где из-за выброса радиации погибли семь человек.

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⚡️⚡️🇳🇴☢️🇷🇺 #Norway records radiation spike on Russian border, — Barents Observer

Traces of caesium-137, a radioactive isotope released during the decay of uranium-235, which is used in the fuel for nuclear reactors and the "filling" of nuclear weapons, were found in samples from two radiation monitoring stations, Viksjöfjäll and Svanhovd, Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (DSA) reported.

The radioactive isotope was detected between September 9 and 12 at stations close to the Norwegian-Russian border; other radiation monitoring posts in northern Norway and Lapland didn't record it.

▫️Several Russian nuclear icebreakers are operating in the Barents Sea, as well as nuclear submarines, which since September 16 have been conducting the largest exercises since the Cold War, Ocean 2024. However, it's unlikely that a cesium-137 "leak" occurred at an operating reactor at sea, experts believe.

▫️Another cause of the radiation leak may be related to the development or testing of the Russian nuclear-powered Burevestnik missile ( (SSC-X-9 Skyfall). Its launch site is located on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago, where the USSR conducted nuclear tests until 1990.

📌Recall that two weeks ago Reuters discovered a launch pad for Burevestnik nuclear-powered missiles 475 km north of Moscow

📌 Let us also recall that the most famous nuclear disaster that occurred during the testing of Burevestnik was in 2019 at the Nyonoksa test site near Severodvinsk, where seven people died due to radiation release (Nenoksa's landfill is located on Novaya Zemlya)

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❗️🇷🇺☢️ 🚀 Russian military have all summer and early autumn been working at the Pankovo test site at Novaya Zemlya. The site is dedicated to test the Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile which has an open-cooled mini-reactor.
Evidence of the testing can be seen by studying daily updated satellite images from the Arctic archipelago.
▫️The Barents Observer has in the course of the summer seen several cargo-ships and special purpose vessels in the waters outside Pankovo and over the last few weeks, Rosatom’s two large Il-76 transport planes have periodically been parked at the airport in Rogachevo at Novaya Zemlya.

❗️🇷🇺☢️ 🚀 Российские военные все лето и начало осени работали на полигоне Паньково на Новой Земле, где проводятся испытания крылатой ядерной ракеты «Буревестник», имеющей открытое охлаждение мини-реактора.
Признаки испытаний можно увидеть, изучая ежедневно обновляемые спутниковые снимки с арктического архипелага.
▫️В течение лета Barents Observer видел несколько грузовых судов и судов специального назначения в водах у Паньково, а в течение последних нескольких недель два больших транспортных самолета Ил-76 Росатома периодически стояли на стоянке в аэропорту Рогачево на Новой Земле.

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❗️☢️ Russian state-owned federal media outlet RIA Novosti reports that today the Central Nuclear Test Site on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago celebrates the 70th anniversary of its founding.

"Between 1954 and 1990, atmospheric, underground, underwater, surface, and ground-based nuclear weapons tests were conducted at the Central Test Site, with a total power of 94% of the power of all nuclear explosions carried out in the USSR," — Russian Defense Ministry.

❗️☢️ Государственное федеральное СМИ РИА Новости сообщает, что сегодня Центральный российский ядерный полигон на архипелаге Новая Земля отмечает 70-летие со дня своего образования

В период с 1954 по 1990 год на Центральном полигоне были проведены испытания атмосферных, подземных, подводных, надводных, а также наземного взрывов ядерного оружия, суммарная мощность которых составляет 94% от мощности всех произведенных в СССР ядерных взрывов", — Минобороны РФ.

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🇷🇺 ☢️ Interfax, citing officials from the Ministry of Defense:
“Non-nuclear explosive experiments are being conducted at the Novaya Zemlya test site”
‼️ The central test site on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in the Arkhangelsk region is ready to resume nuclear tests, the head of the test site, Andrei Sinitsyn, said in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

"The test site is ready to resume full-scale nuclear testing. If the command is given, we'll begin testing at any time."

The history of megaton-class nuclear weapons testing began here on September 17, 1954. The last nuclear explosion at the site was carried out on October 24, 1990, after which the USSR declared a moratorium on nuclear weapons testing.

🇷🇺 ☢️ Интерфакс, со слов чиновников Минобороны:
«На полигоне на Новой Земле проводятся неядерные взрывные эксперименты»
‼️Центральный полигон на архипелаге Новая Земля Архангельской области готов к возобновлению ядерных испытаний, сообщил в интервью «Российской газете» начальник полигона Андрей Синицын.
☠️17 сентября 1954 года здесь началась история проведения испытаний ядерного оружия мегатонного класса. Последний ядерный взрыв на полигоне был проведен 24 октября 1990 года, после чего СССР объявил о моратории на испытания ядерного оружия.

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🔥☢️ 10 facts from the history of the nuclear test site on Novaya Zemlya
Факты из истории ядерного полигона на Новой Земле

1️⃣ Only 1.5 months passed from the decision to create the test site until its "birthday": the classified decree of the USSR Council of Ministers on the equipment of "Object-700" on Novaya Zemlya was issued on July 31, 1954.

2️⃣ The location was chosen based on considerations of transport accessibility (ice-free ports in the Barents Sea) and minimal harm to people - by 1954 the population of the archipelago was only 400 people.

3️⃣ Novaya Zemlya is slightly larger than the UAE and slightly smaller than Austria. Officially, the test site occupied more than half of the island. That's, the nuclear charges were detonated on a territory approximately equal to the area of ​​the Netherlands.

4️⃣ A total of 132 nuclear explosions were initiated on Novaya Zemlya. Their total power was 94% of all explosions carried out in the USSR.

5️⃣ On October 30, 1961, the Tsar Bomba (aka AN602 or "Kuzkina Mat"), the most powerful bomb ever created by man, was detonated on Novaya Zemlya. The explosion of the thermonuclear aerial bomb was estimated at 58 megatons (approximately 10,000 times greater than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima). The poisonous "mushroom" rose to a height of 65 km, the diameter of its "cap" spread over 95 km, the shock wave of the explosion circled the Earth three times, the sound wave reached Dikson Island, 800 km from Novaya Zemlya.

6️⃣ The largest underground tests at the testing ground were carried out in the USSR on September 12, 1973. The total power of four charges, synchronously detonated inside the Black Mountain, was 4.2 megatons. As a result, 80 million cubic meters of rock came down as an avalanche and blocked the entrance to the valley and two glacial streams - a lake 2 km long was formed.

7️⃣ The largest accident occurred at the test site on October 14, 1969. An hour after another underground explosion, a stream of radioactive gas and steam burst through a crack in the ground to the surface. The gamma radiation level jumped to several hundred roentgens per hour. Over the next hour, most of the personnel servicing the test were under it. 344 people suffered from high levels of radiation.

8️⃣ The first underwater nuclear explosion in the USSR was carried out on Novaya Zemlya in Chernaya Bay at a depth of 12 meters on September 21, 1955.

9️⃣In September 1957, another incident occurred at the test site - a nuclear charge failed to explode. Specialists were sent to the unexploded bomb, and a few days later the bomb was detonated

1️⃣0️⃣ The Novaya Zemlya test site is still the only one operating on the territory of the former USSR. It has the status of "Central Test Site of the Russian Federation" and is subordinate to the 12th Main Directorate of the Ministry of Defense with the number m/u 31600. Experiments "to ensure the reliability, combat capability and safety of storing nuclear weapons" are continuing at the test site in secret from the rest of the world.

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⚡️🇱🇧🔥📱В Бейруте массово взорвались пейджеры боевиков Хезболлы: около 3000 пострадавших и 9 погибших. Более 200 раненых находятся в тяжелом состоянии

The Wall Street Journal пишет, что взорвавшиеся пейджеры были из новой партии, которую члены «Хезболлы» получили на днях

🇮🇷 Среди раненых — посол Ирана в Ливане Моджтаба Амани, сообщило Mehr News Agency. Он госпитализирован с легкими травмами

▫️Sky News Arabia сообщил, что за взрывами, вероятно, стоит Израиль. Военный эксперт Джозеф Нассар предположил, что в пейджеры был внедрен вирус, который заставляет ПО работать на высокой скорости и приводит к взрыву аккумулятора. Похожую версию опубликовал и ливанский телеканал LBCI
#Ливан

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⚡️🇱🇧🔥📱 Iran-backed Hezbollah accused Israel of orchestrating an attack that killed several and left nearly 3,000 wounded across Lebanon
Bloomberg: Hezbollah Says Israel Orchestrated Pager Blasts

Lebanese newspaper Elnashra, citing data from the Lebanese Ministry of Health, reported that at least 2,800 people were injured in the blasts; 9 people, including a child, were killed. The condition of more than 200 victims is assessed as critical

The WSJ reports exploded pagers pagerswere part of a new batch that Hezbollah members received recently

🇮🇷 Among the wounded - Iran's ambassador to #Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, Mehr News Agency reported. He was hospitalized with minor injuries

▫️Sky News Arabia reported that Israel was likely behind the explosions. Military expert Joseph Nassar suggested that a virus had been implanted in the pagers, which forces the software to run at high speed and causes the battery to explode. A similar version was published by the Lebanese TV channel LBCI

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