

The first nuclear blasts took place at the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site since 1961. The site was officially closed in1991. A detail of ground-based space technologies - a vacuum channel to withdraw the energy of a nuclear blast.
- Categories: Economy, Business & Finance, Science & Technology, Unrest, Conflicts & War
- Location: Semipalatynsk, Kazakhstan
- Event date: 15.09.2001
- Date published: 01.01.2007
- Author: Andrew
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: 01-2221, 35 mm film
- Media: JPEG, 3541x2340px, 3.2Mb