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Russian Nuclear Agency Confirms Radiation Leak Following Rocket Engine Test
Russian nuclear agency Rosatom admitted on Saturday that a suspicious cloud of radiation that spread over the Arkhangelsk region was caused by an explosion at one of its facilities, the Guardian reported, involving experiments involving an “isotope power source for a liquid-fuelled rocket engine.”
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Hackers Reportedly Break Into SyTech, A Contractor For Russia’s Federal Security Service
Hackers breached servers at a contractor for Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), SyTech, and stole about 7.5 terabytes of data after gaining access to the company’s entire network earlier this month, ZDnet reported on Sunday.
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Russian Coal Plant Tells Instagrammers To Please Stop Bathing In Its Toxic Ash Dump
The turquoise water of a lake in Siberia looks like a tropical paradise and it’s drawn in hundreds of Instagramers who have posed in and around the “Novosibirsk Maldives.” But it’s not white sands or microscopic plankton that give the water its unusual hue. The “lake” is actually a human-made ash dump, used to store…
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Incredible Photo From The Space Station Shows Raikoke Volcano Erupting
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station caught the spectacular eruption of the Raikoke volcano off of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula over the weekend.