translated from Spanish: Radiation hike after missile test explosion in Russia

Russian authorities reported a brief increase in radiation levels after an explosion during a missile test claimed the lives of two people at a barents military facility near the shipyards that manufacture nuclear submarines.
A “short-term radiation increase” was detected in the port city of Severodvinsk at 11:50 a.m., according to a statement from the local administration. Radiation levels then decreased to a normal range from 2 p.m., according to the statement. The accident occurred in the town of Nyonoksa, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Severodvinsk, Interfax reported.
Radiation returned to its normal levels after the explosion, which also wounded six people, during the test of a missile engine, a spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry said. The area in the northern Russian region of Arkhangelsk houses an arms test camp for the navy.
The incident comes after a series of explosions earlier this week in a Siberian military depot that killed one and wounded 13, as well as forcing the evacuation of 16,500 people from their homes. The Russian navy has suffered numerous high-profile accidents over the years. In July, 14 sailors died in a fire aboard a nuclear-powered submarine in the Barents Sea in an incident that officials initially refused to comment on.
Russia’s worst post-Soviet naval disaster also occurred in the Barents Sea, when 118 crew members were killed on the Kursk nuclear submarine that sank after an explosion in August 2000.

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