Power station explodes leaving thousands without power in Moscow
- 4 years ago
Dash cam footage shows flames shooting into the air during the inferno before an ominous black and grey cloud is seen in the sky over apartment blocks in Podolsk
Footage has emerged of a dramatic explosion at a power plant near Moscow, which left thousands without power in subzero temperatures.
The video, filmed from inside a moving car, sees a mushroom cloud explosion rise into the sky from a substation in Podolsk on Monday afternoon.
As a result, operations at 27 boiler houses in the city, 25 miles south of the Russian capital, were suspended and a reported 24,000 peoples' power was cut for an hour.
RBC reports PJSC Moscow United Grid Company ceased its power supply following the explosion, according to the city district administration.
The restoration of normal operations of the boiler rooms and the provision of full heating took a little while longer.
Dash cam footage shows the moment flames shot into the air during the inferno followed by an ominous black and grey cloud over apartment blocks, of which 145 were left with no power, it is understood.
No reasons were immediately given by officials for the sudden explosion on Monday at what is a major electrical substation in the Moscow suburb - and no casualties were reported in the blast.
The incident comes months after Moscow's Severnaya thermal plant in Chelobit'yevo caught fire following an explosion at a gas pipeline next to the plant.
The plant's operations were halted but the facility itself was not damaged, despite flames soaring 50 metres above the the building in July last year.
In August, meanwhile, a radiation explosion in Russia that killed at least five people happened during a test of the nuclear engine of a deadly cruise missile nicknamed the 'Flying Chernobyl', a leading Moscow journalist has claimed.
The existence of the lethal weapon, which allegedly has an unlimited range, was revealed during a speech to senators last year by Russian president Vladimir Putin.
The incident near Severodvink led to a radiation 'spike', according to civilian authorities, but Moscow faced criticism for not releasing a full explanation of exactly what caused the blast.
Respected analyst Yulia Latynina claimed at the time the weapon that exploded was an ultra-modern missile called the Burevestnik.
Putin described it as having an "unlimited range and a nuclear engine", which fits the sparse information released in the wake of the incident. Russian officials have not named the precise missile involved.
"It is highly likely that this is the one that exploded," Latynina, a respected columnist, author and radio host, wrote in investigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta.
She dubbed the missile a "small flying Chernobyl".
"If it was the Burevestnik, then the inner parts of its nuclear reactor - or, most likely, the liquid flowing there - ended up outside," she wrote.
This was "just like the inner parts of the Chernobyl reactor which were thrown around the station's territory by the explosion."
Footage has emerged of a dramatic explosion at a power plant near Moscow, which left thousands without power in subzero temperatures.
The video, filmed from inside a moving car, sees a mushroom cloud explosion rise into the sky from a substation in Podolsk on Monday afternoon.
As a result, operations at 27 boiler houses in the city, 25 miles south of the Russian capital, were suspended and a reported 24,000 peoples' power was cut for an hour.
RBC reports PJSC Moscow United Grid Company ceased its power supply following the explosion, according to the city district administration.
The restoration of normal operations of the boiler rooms and the provision of full heating took a little while longer.
Dash cam footage shows the moment flames shot into the air during the inferno followed by an ominous black and grey cloud over apartment blocks, of which 145 were left with no power, it is understood.
No reasons were immediately given by officials for the sudden explosion on Monday at what is a major electrical substation in the Moscow suburb - and no casualties were reported in the blast.
The incident comes months after Moscow's Severnaya thermal plant in Chelobit'yevo caught fire following an explosion at a gas pipeline next to the plant.
The plant's operations were halted but the facility itself was not damaged, despite flames soaring 50 metres above the the building in July last year.
In August, meanwhile, a radiation explosion in Russia that killed at least five people happened during a test of the nuclear engine of a deadly cruise missile nicknamed the 'Flying Chernobyl', a leading Moscow journalist has claimed.
The existence of the lethal weapon, which allegedly has an unlimited range, was revealed during a speech to senators last year by Russian president Vladimir Putin.
The incident near Severodvink led to a radiation 'spike', according to civilian authorities, but Moscow faced criticism for not releasing a full explanation of exactly what caused the blast.
Respected analyst Yulia Latynina claimed at the time the weapon that exploded was an ultra-modern missile called the Burevestnik.
Putin described it as having an "unlimited range and a nuclear engine", which fits the sparse information released in the wake of the incident. Russian officials have not named the precise missile involved.
"It is highly likely that this is the one that exploded," Latynina, a respected columnist, author and radio host, wrote in investigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta.
She dubbed the missile a "small flying Chernobyl".
"If it was the Burevestnik, then the inner parts of its nuclear reactor - or, most likely, the liquid flowing there - ended up outside," she wrote.
This was "just like the inner parts of the Chernobyl reactor which were thrown around the station's territory by the explosion."