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It was also found that at the moment of accident at least six nuts were missing from the bolts securing the turbine cover. After the accident 49 recovered bolts were investigated, of which 41 had fatigue cracks. On 8 bolts, the fatigue damaged area exceeded 90% of the total cross-sectional area. [3]
It has been nicknamed "The Tunnel of Death" (Russian: Тоннель Смерти) [2] [3] owing to its high accident rate and a viral video circulating around the Internet compiling footage of vehicle accidents (many caused by skidding on ice in winter) recorded by monitoring cameras.
8 January - A Russian Air Force aircraft accidentally released an FAB-250 warhead over Rubizhne, Russian-occupied Luhansk Oblast. No casualties or damage were reported, and the warhead failed to detonate. [157] 12 March - A Russian Air Force IL-76 transport aircraft carrying 15 people on board caught fire and crashed during takeoff in Ivanovo ...
The timing and location of the event coincides with the reported accident in Archangelsk. [21] Several fishermen stated on sanatatur.ru that they witnessed the accident: one saw a 100-meter column of water rise into the air after the explosion and another saw a large hole in the side of a ship which had been at the site of the explosion. [9]
KURCHATOV, Russia (Reuters) -U.N. nuclear agency chief Rafael Grossi said after visiting Russia's Kursk nuclear power plant on Tuesday that there was a risk of a nuclear accident and the situation ...
[5] [11] The operations later resumed, and 35 more miners were found dead, bringing the death toll to 51. [3] A day later, a rescuer who had gone missing was found alive. He was conscious when he was found and was hospitalized with moderate carbon monoxide poisoning. [3] There were 285 miners inside during the explosion. [12]
The Kyshtym disaster, (Russian: Кыштымская авария), sometimes referred to as the Mayak disaster or Ozyorsk disaster in newer sources, was a radioactive contamination accident that occurred on 29 September 1957 at Mayak, a plutonium reprocessing production plant for nuclear weapons located in the closed city of Chelyabinsk-40 (now Ozyorsk) in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia in the ...
The exact death toll of the explosion is not known. The first Western reporting of the accident via the Italian Continentale News Agency in December 1960 said that 100 people were killed, [6] while The Guardian reported in 1965, citing information from spy Oleg Penkovsky who had passed information to the West, that as many as 300 had died. [7]