Russia admitted that there were 7 dead in its nuclear test

After three days of silence, Russia has acknowledged in recent hours that Thursday's explosion on one of its missile launch bases near the Arctic involved a nuclear projectile, killing at least seven people. Five of the victims are civilians, technicians working at the base and two of the soldiers. In addition, three people were burned.

"The specialists of Rosatom (the state-owned Atomic Energy) and the Ministry of Defense have died as a result of the explosion of the liquid fuel experimental engine," confirmed the portfolio in a statement issued by the agency RIA Novosti. "The missile test was carried out on a marine platform. Once the tests were completed, the missile propeller caught fire and then exploded, causing a shock wave that projected many of our specialists to the sea, "Rosatom revealed.

The test was carried out on a "maritime platform", the authorities said, along the coast of the Severodvinsk military base. The Russian company added a fact: its specialists "conducted research on the propulsion of radionuclide missiles (radioactive nuclide)".

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