Russia builds a military base in 1954. Soldiers test rockets and weapons there. In August 2019, there is an explosion. 5 people die in the explosion. The US believes that Russia does a test of a nuclear rocket.
Close to the base, there is a small village. Many people from the village see the explosion.
People grow food in their gardens. They do not want to eat it. They think that it is not safe to eat the food. They worry about their health. Officials say that it is safe to eat the food.
People are scared. They want to get more information about the explosion. However, officials say nothing.
Difficult words: military base (a place where soldiers work and live and they have a lot of machines and weapons there), explosion (when something breaks into small pieces and there is a very loud noise), nuclear rocket (a very dangerous weapon that has big power and it can kill many people).In August 2019, there was an explosion at a Russian military base, and it killed at least 5 people. The US said that Russia tested a new nuclear weapon.
There is a village near the base. Some people saw the explosion, and they said that they did not get any information about the explosion for 4 hours. People worried about the radiation, and they did not want to eat fruit from their gardens. However, officials said that it was safe to eat because the wind blew the other way.
Today, people worry about the effect of the radiation. They are angry because they do not have any official information about the radiation.
Difficult words: military base (a place where soldiers work and live and where military actions start), nuclear weapon (a very dangerous bomb or rocket that can kill many people), radiation (a special energy that comes from nuclear weapons and other things and is very dangerous to people´s health).Just 1,000 kilometers north of Moscow, there is the village of Nyonoksa. It is near a Russian military base set up by the Soviet navy in 1954, and non-residents need a permission to visit the village.
In August 2019, there was an explosion of a rocket engine and radiation leak at the base. At least 5 people died in the explosion and that was not the first accident over the years.
Some people who witnessed the explosion said that no news appeared until 4 hours later. People in the village were worried about the radiation, and a lot of them did not harvest fruit from their gardens. However, officials told them that there was no radiation absorbed in the water or soil.People still worry about the consequences, and about the lack of information about the radiation.Difficult words: radiation (a form of energy that comes from a nuclear reaction and that is dangerous to health), leak (when liquid or gas accidentally gets out of a container through a hole or a crack), consequence (a bad or unpleasant result of a situation).
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