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Two International Monitoring Stations, used to monitor radiation activity within the framework of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, stopped sending data two days after the August 8, 2019 explosion in northern Russia.
The explosion happened on the nuclear missiles testing ground in the village of Nyonoksa, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. Reports on the monitors no longer gathering radiation data was reported by the Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization. This was stated by Lassina Zerbo in an interview for The Wall Street Journal, Meduza reported.
According to Meduza, stations in Kirov and Dubno, which are in the closest proximity to the explosion’s location, are no longer working.
Newsweek cites Executive director of the Arms Control Association, Daryl Kimball, as that “It is a very odd coincidence that these stations stopped sending data shortly after the August 8 incident.”
According to Zerbo, Current Time cites, the organization connected to the monitors was told that the monitors had ‘temporary communication and network issues.’
Zerbo also published an animated map of the potential plume from the explosion on his Twitter showing how the radiation could be disbursed across Russia and further afield.
The explosion and fired occurred at a secret facility on a military base in the far north of Russia on August 8, 2019. As a result, five employees of Rosatom were killed according to government sources.
