Five employees of Russia's atomic agency have been killed in a blast while testing a liquid jet propulsion system, a state agency says
The five were killed"while testing a liquid jet propulsion system," Rosatom, which oversees all Russian nuclear projects, said in a statement on its website. It added three more people were injured and"have burns of varying severity." The incident happened Thursday near Severodvinsk, a town in the Arkhangelsk region which is home to a naval base and a shipyard.
However, local authorities in Severodvinsk released a statement Thursday that said there was a radiation spike following the blast. That statement has since been deleted from the official website. A spokesperson for the Severodvinsk administration told RBC, a Russian daily business newspaper, that the statement had been removed from the website"as the situation is being handled by the Ministry of Defense.
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