[AR] Re: Earth shattering kaboom.
- From: Henry Vanderbilt <hvanderbilt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 09:03:50 -0700
On 8/11/2019 11:45 PM, Uwe Klein wrote:
Am 11.08.2019 um 20:41 schrieb Henry Vanderbilt:
2 millisievert/hour? That's substantial. Any more details as to where
that was measured and what the info source was?
my reference was:
https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Russland-nennt-Details-zu-Raketenunfall-article21200283.html
( should submit to google translate )
they differ by 3 magnitudes.
Ah. Vielen danke! Milli, micro, three orders of magnitude, who's
counting? Not the average reporter these days :-( Looks like another
example of sloppy reporting - looking at that story you kindly provided
the pointer to, they seem to have since then corrected all instances of
"millisievert" to "microsievert." Somewhat less alarming.
Great picture of the gate sign at the Nyonoksa test base. Looks like
their chief pride is SLBM's, with a secondary of cruise missiles, and
they've been around since 1954. Beyond that I'd have to read Russian,
alas. Anyone willing to provide a translation, especially of the more
detailed left sign panel? Thanks in advance!
From the NYT today, a primary quote, FWIW: "Vyacheslav Solovyov, the
scientific director of the Russian Federal Nuclear Center, said in a
video interview with a local newspaper that the institute had been
studying “small-scale sources of energy with the use of fissile
materials.”" Sounds like perhaps new small RTG's? 12 minute video of
the interview, alas in Russian without subtitles, is at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsDOuH91LEU&feature=youtu.be - again,
any Russian speakers willing to listen and provide the high points? TIA...
FWIW, testing from a barge offshore is often done with SLBM's - with
underwater-launch naval missiles in general - using a specialized barge
to simulate launching from a submerged sub. Despite all the nuke-ramjet
hysteria, amplified by pig-ignorant reporting, I still think the
simplest explanation is the Russians somehow thought it was a good idea
to use some sort of RTG(s?) for auxiliary power (or heat?) (or
measurement instrument rad source?) in an otherwise
conventional-propulsion storeable-biprop missile, then had a really bad
day with the storeable biprop part.
Henry
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