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Days after a mysterious explosion at a Russian naval test site caused radiation detectors to briefly spike, several monitoring stations have gone silent, raising fears Moscow is hiding the extent of the blast that killed five people.
Axar.az reports citing foreign media that Officials at the Vienna-based Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) say that four of the five nuclear monitoring stations in Russia have mysteriously stopped transmitting data.
Lassina Zerbo, executive secretary of the CTBTO, said on Twitter that two station operators said they were experiencing "technical problems."
"Experts continue to reach out to our collaborators in Russia to resume station operations as expediently as possible," an unnamed senior CTBTO official added in an interview with
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2019.08.20 / 17:22
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Author
Axar.az
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