Russian Nuclear-powered Missile Accident, Chernobyl-lite, anyone?

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Russia has been trying to develop a nuclear-powered cruise missile. The bomb on the missile is conventional, but a mini-nuclear reactor powers the missile itself. They've had several set-backs on developing this...well, frankly, INSANE idea, but last week, there was an explosion that resulted in the most Chernobyl-style response imaginable. (Imagine Kevin Bacon's character trying to stop the stampede in Animal House.)

Basically, it looks like the explosion killed 7 directly (5 of them nuclear scientists from Rosatom), the doctors who treated the injured have now been taken to Moscow for exposure to radiation, the nearest town had a run on iodine tablets, was scheduled to be evacuated, and today that evacuation cancelled and, apparently Russia didn't learn one damn thing from Chernobyl. They've lied, changed their story, accused others of lying, and it's a pretty likely chance that there is an open nuclear reactor now sitting in the White Sea off the coast near Severodvinsk.

It's quite a thing...

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Oh good, so we'll get a second season of the show after all.

So this is Project Pluto all over again? Great, the most mental part of the Cold War is back! Looking forward to hearing terms like MAD and Dead Hand again, and learning to duck and cover. Like the existential threats from climate change, mass extinction, antibiotic-resistant pandemics, and fascism weren't exciting enough.
 
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Oh good, so we'll get a second season of the show after all.

So this is Project Pluto all over again? Great, the most mental part of the Cold War is back! Looking forward to hearing terms like MAD and Dead Hand again, and learning to duck and cover. Like the existential threats from climate change, mass extinction, antibiotic-resistant pandemics, and fascism weren't exciting enough.

Gotta give our species credit - when we go, we're gonna go BIG! ALL the causes, and more we're inventing on the fly! Survival will literally not be possible! It'll be a YUUUGE event the planet will never forget (at least, not until the radiation drops to a safe background level)!
 

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Great, the most mental part of the Cold War is back! Looking forward to hearing terms like MAD and Dead Hand again, and learning to duck and cover.

And all of it under the stupidest administration in living memory.
 

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Oh good, so we'll get a second season of the show after all.

So this is Project Pluto all over again? Great, the most mental part of the Cold War is back! Looking forward to hearing terms like MAD and Dead Hand again, and learning to duck and cover. Like the existential threats from climate change, mass extinction, antibiotic-resistant pandemics, and fascism weren't exciting enough.

Well, if they keep dumping reactors into the northern seas, they'll take care of melting the arctic, so that's a two-fer. I wouldn't put it past Putin to already be thinking, "Hey, now! THERE'S a way we can corner the world oil market!"
 

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Russia has been trying to develop a nuclear-powered cruise missile. The bomb on the missile is conventional, but a mini-nuclear reactor powers the missile itself.

So the thing hits its target and spreads radioactive material as a bonus damage.

-cb