Yesterday this was being reported as a gas pipeline explosion (http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/11413). Today it has become an explosion at a nuclear power station (assuming it is the same explosion - not sure). Here are some photos and vids.

If these are the same explosion, the way it is unfolding is reminding me a lot of how the Chernobyl/Pripyat explosion was reported picked by pocksucket 2 years ago

Bush, for some reason, is determined to have Richard Stickler to head up the Mine Safety and Health Administration despite congress refusing to accept the nomination. He continues to pull one trick or another to get the man with a poor record of mine safety and leadership, but an excellent record of corporate interest in place. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

Boxun News, a Chinese-language Web site based outside China, reported that an unnamed expert has claimed that there was a nuclear explosion near the epicenter of the Sichuan earthquake, based on witness reports and the discovery of concrete rubble believed to have come from an underground military installation. The news of this nuclear explosion has raised questions about the cause of the earthqua... read full post picked by bingo 1 year ago

Icicles merge with Stalactites, chambers are flooded, prop struts lie crushed like matchwood. Despite this, one brave photographer penetrated this disused Siberian mine to bring back these photos - including bats covered in condensation picked by pocksucket 2 years ago

Nowhere is Murray's companies' safety record more dismal than Galatia, the southern Illinois mine Murray bought in 1998, which has piled up 2,787 violations since June 2005. Of those, 660 violations were considered significant and substantial, meaning the hazard could "result in an injury or illness of a reasonably serious nature." picked by hisidea 2 years ago

Bingham Canyon Mine is the biggest open pit mine in the world. It is situated west of Salt Lake City, Utah, southwest of West Jordan. This is the largest man made excavation on earth, the mine’s actual pit stretches 4 km (2.5 mi) in width and has a depth of 1.2 km (0.75 mi). picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago

Using the powerful one-two combo of NASA’s Swift satellite and the Gemini Observatory, astronomers have detected a mysterious type of cosmic explosion farther back in time than ever before. The explosion, known as a short gamma-ray burst (GRB), took place 7.4 billion years ago, more than halfway back to the Big Bang. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A large cache of stone tools estimated to be up to 35,000 years old has been discovered on the site of one of Australia's largest iron ore mines, sparking calls on Monday for the site's preservation. Archaeologists uncovered the tools on the site of the A$1 billion ($920 million) Hope Downs iron ore mine, about 310 kilometres (192 miles) south of Port Hedland, in western Australia's ore-rich Pilba... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

We have one confirmed fatality,” said Kurt Knaus, a spokesman for the state Department of Environmental Protection. “I believe it is a recovery and not a rescue operation.” picked by dollyllama 3 years ago

Show will include a punk performance by Bruce the shark. No word yet of a seagull chorus singing "Mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine..." picked by Wingnut 3 years ago

Very interesting, very different social news site for strange, funny, scandalous and generally non-boring news. picked by norequest 3 years ago

Dozens of people were injured - more than 30 of them critically - in an explosion at a sugar refinery near Savannah, Georgia, Thursday evening, law enforcement and medical officials said. picked by mahler87 2 years ago

Last September, a supernova burst into a cosmic flame 100 times more intense than any event on record—and left scientists scratching their heads. Now, two new studies attempt to explain the remarkable explosion. One sets up the explosion with a cannibalistic star, while the other describes how colliding layers of jettisoned gas could outshine all other supernovae. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A 16-year-old tourist from Pennsylvania fell 1,000 feet to his death at an abandoned mine in central Mexico. picked by Bornbad 2 years ago

A cosmic explosion that seems to have come out of nowhere—thousands of light-years from the nearest collection of stars—has left astronomers baffled. The blast, one of the brightest this year, was detected by spacecraft from the Inter-Planetary Network on Jan. 25 and satellites were used to pinpoint its location to a region of the sky in the constellation Gemini. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A dentist who specializes in "smile improvements" has sued utility Consolidated Edison for $25 million for not being able to use his office since last week's steam pipe explosion in Manhattan. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

An explosion that ripped through a Laundromat and damaged a neighboring fire department in Fries, Va., Monday evening has killed one of the victims.

*This story gets weirder as you read the events which lead up to this. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

While humans are still struggling to get rid of unwanted carbon it appears that the heavens are really rather good at it. New research by astrophysicists at the University of Warwick has discovered that a mystery stellar explosion recorded in 2006 may have marked the unusual death of an equally unusually carbon-rich star. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

A pensioner had an amazing escape after a gas blast blew apart his home when he tried to make a cup of tea. picked by nesbyniccolo 3 years ago

A 2,000-year-old mine has been discovered high in mountains in Peru. The find offers proof that an ancient people in the Andes mined hematite iron ore centuries before the Inca Empire, archaeologists say. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago