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An explosion occurred near Izhevsk “during testing of rocket engines,” TASS reports, citing emergency services.

The explosion occurred in the area of the Votkinsk plant test site in the village of Yagul, 12 km from Izhevsk.

The Ministry of Emergency Situations, commenting on what happened, announced “technical work” at the Votkinsk Machine-Building Plant.

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I would guess between 2 km and 10 km.

https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

The largest strategic nuclear weapon ever built, a 50 megaton weapon, would produce a fireball slightly over 5 km.

I think that it is extremely safe to say that whatever fireball the factory had wasn't 10 km in diameter.

[–] A_A@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

N.B. : the Halifax explosion was about 0.003 megaton (2.9 kilotons of TNT)

(...) Every building within a 2.6_km (...) radius, over 12,000 in total, was destroyed or badly damaged. (...)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion

[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That'll be damage from the blast, rather than the fireball. Can't see blast damage in the video, so I assume that you're talking about the fireball.

[–] A_A@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Yes, my first comment was about the fireball. Also, I am looking at the news today and there is not much more now than there was yesterday about it ... I will watch the news again to know more in the next few days.

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Didn't the radius of damage have a fitting name?

[–] A_A@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 1 points 7 months ago

Guess i meant "blast radius". Versus the fireball radius (this one has no fancy name). Just remembered nukemap.