A fire broke out on Sunday at a Moscow nuclear research center that houses a non-operational 60-year-old atomic reactor, emergency officials reported as Russia’s nuclear agency Rosatom said the blaze had not been accompanied by any open flames and posed no threat of a radiation leak.

There were conflicting reports late Sunday afternoon over whether the fire was in fact out, and the Alikhanov Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics in southwestern Moscow refused to take calls, making it impossible to determine whether any nuclear fuel or other radioactive materials were impacted by the blaze.

Originally posted by boncho
reply to post by jude11

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I would throw in a little bit of it being a Russian plant as well. They never had the greatest nuclear record.

Originally posted by boncho

Originally posted by boncho
reply to post by jude11

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I would throw in a little bit of it being a Russian plant as well. They never had the greatest nuclear record.

Come to think about it, there was also that time they accidentally released a ton of anthrax in a village/town.

The Sverdlovsk anthrax leak was an incident when spores of anthrax were accidentally released from a military facility in the city of Sverdlovsk (formerly, and now again, Yekaterinburg) 1450 km east of Moscow on April 2, 1979. This accident is sometimes called "biological Chernobyl".[1]

Working in great haste and total secrecy, the scientists in the city of Sverdlovsk transferred hundreds of tons of anthrax bacteria -- enough to destroy the world many times over -- into giant stainless-steel canisters.