What the records say
- When
- 16 Sep 1979
- Kind
- Nuclear test
- Yield (kt)
- 0
- Where
- Ukeaine
- Coordinates
- 48.22° N, 38.27° E
- Yield kt
- 0.3
- Type
- mine
- Purpose
- peaceful nuclear explosion
- Reported by
- MTM
Placed at the Yunokommunarovsk (Klivazh).
Klivazh
1979 Soviet underground nuclear explosion
Klivazh is the site of an underground peaceful nuclear explosion in the Soviet program of Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy. The event took place in the Donetsk Oblast of the Ukrainian SSR on September 16, 1979. The site flooded with underground waters in 2018 after Russian military occupation during Russo-Ukrainian war, with a risk of radiological pollution of drinking water in the area.
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- Nuclear explosions 1945–1998SIPRI / FOA, via TidyTuesdayNo licence stated
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