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President Putin says five men killed in huge explosion ... of weapon (Trunc)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | 21 November 2019 | Ryan Fahey

Posted on 11/21/2019 9:07:26 PM PST by Enterprise

Full Title: President Putin says five men killed in huge explosion in northern Russia that caused sudden radiation spike died trying to create a weapon that ‘has no equal in the world’

Russian President Vladimir Putin has told widows of the five scientists who died in a nuclear explosion earlier this year that their husbands were working on 'the most advanced and unmatched technical' weaponry.

Putin's comments came during a ceremony of state decorations at the Kremlin today where he awarded the deceased employees of Russia's state nuclear company with the Order of Courage, posthumously.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Russia
KEYWORDS: 2019; 201908; aeronautics; aerospace; boom; cruisemissile; engineering; explosion; marvinthemartian; oops; posthumous; putin; radiation; russia; whitesea; zircon
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To: Enterprise

“a weapon that ‘has no equal in the world’”

Swalwell’s explosive gas issue.


21 posted on 11/21/2019 9:51:54 PM PST by LouieFisk
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To: Enterprise

I wonder if it was a repeat of a “demon core”-type incident?

Basically, scientists mishandling the core of a nuclear weapon.


22 posted on 11/21/2019 9:52:44 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Enterprise

Video at the source shows what appears to be the equivalent of Russian Hell’s Angels carrying some of the coffins. What does this tell us? Russia’s top nuclear scientists and engineers have friends and relatives who are H.A.s? Suddenly I’m less concerned about whatever the heck it is they’re supposed to be doing.


23 posted on 11/21/2019 10:50:17 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: Enterprise

The widows received their husbands’ remains in lead thimbles.


24 posted on 11/21/2019 10:57:59 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures)
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To: piasa
This is the route it supposedly took: "The Akademik Lomonosov on 23rd August, 2019 set out of the Kola Bay after more than a year of preparations in Murmansk. Towed by icebreaker Dikson and accompanied by support ships Yasnyy and Kapitan Martyshkin, the floating power plant had course for the Barents Sea and subsequently made it through the Kara Sea and Laptev Sea. The voyage from Murmansk to Pevek is about 4,700 km long."

The original route was supposed to go through the Baltic Sea, then north to the Arctic. It was supposed to arrive in early September. They had originally planned to load the nuclear fuel while it was still docked at St. Petersburg where it was built, but Greenpeace in Russia, who called it "Chernobyl on Ice filed a petition with thousands of signatures against that plan, and so the plan was changed and the fuel was not supposed to be put into the plant until it docked at its destiny. According to one article, they were going to turn it on this fall, but I haven't been able to locate anything that says that has occurred yet. It's supposed to be replacing two permanent plants that are being shut down.

25 posted on 11/21/2019 11:03:20 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Yeah! It’s like having a little space heater everywhere you go. Those Russian leaders are the best. Ask the Red Army soldiers that threw the fuel chunks back it the reactor building a Chernobyl. Ah, belay my last, I can’t find any of them alive. My bad.


26 posted on 11/21/2019 11:04:49 PM PST by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought))
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To: Enterprise

There’s five dead scientists that won’t be creating anything anymore. Might want to keep them out of the blast zone next time.


27 posted on 11/21/2019 11:05:52 PM PST by McGruff (Does no one is above the law apply to Democrats?)
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To: McGruff

Gosh, they were probably at least a mile away.


28 posted on 11/21/2019 11:11:20 PM PST by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought))
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To: Enterprise

And one of them was the president of that Ukrainian gas company.


29 posted on 11/21/2019 11:39:06 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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To: bigbob

Hush-a-boom. At last, a silent explosive.


30 posted on 11/21/2019 11:41:30 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: BradyLS
Basically, scientists mishandling the core of a nuclear weapon.

Some people did something . . . wrong.

31 posted on 11/21/2019 11:45:33 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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To: Enterprise

For over 70 years, Russia has been claiming to have created doomsday weapons to destroy the whole world. I guess it’s a cultural thing.


32 posted on 11/22/2019 12:12:47 AM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: VanShuyten

Might be a new kind of non-bomb-pumped X-Ray laser (these already exist in various forms). At the end of the Cold War, it was discovered that the Soviets had actually been further along in laser research and military applications thereof than the West had been.

X-Ray lasers are kind of scary. Ravening death beam at more than one light-minute distance.


33 posted on 11/22/2019 1:07:54 AM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: VanShuyten

Actually, it appears they were working on nuclear propulsion for spacecraft. It could actually be a soft X-ray projector as those can be used for spacecraft propulsion.


34 posted on 11/22/2019 1:10:30 AM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: LibWhacker
Might not be Hell's Angels, and it may be that one of the deceased was a non HA motorcycle club member. Or perhaps they had friends... or perhaps it's their version of the Patriot Guard?

Or are these men honoring a deceased US military serviceman also Hell's Angels and therefore the deceased's accomplishments should be ignored?


35 posted on 11/22/2019 1:14:54 AM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Enterprise

They proved the new weapon is lethal.


36 posted on 11/22/2019 1:23:19 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: piasa
Was it in the White Sea?

Probably white water. I wonder if it’s development corporation?

37 posted on 11/22/2019 2:06:12 AM PST by Mark17 (Dad of Air Force Officer in pilot training. Air Force aircraft, go much faster than Army tanks)
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To: Mark17

It was a video. Anti-muslim to be exact.


38 posted on 11/22/2019 6:05:01 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Enterprise

This is what they’re trying to develop.

Project Pluto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto

There’s a photo of the engine that was fired successfully. Have fun. Enjoy the slide.


39 posted on 11/22/2019 12:26:28 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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