Sensors detect rise in nuclear particles on Baltic Sea

Re:Sensors detect rise in nuclear particles on Baltic Sea by ProblemFactory on Saturday June 27, 2020 @03:18PM (#23663961)

> old Chernobyl-like pressure water reactors in Tallin or St Petersburg

You must be confusing Tallinn with some other city - Estonia does not and has not had any nuclear power plants.

The map covers Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Russia. Estonia and Latvia have no nuclear power or weapons programs, and the first four are EU countries where staying silent about an incident would be very unlikely. That leaves Russia.

Interestingly enough the possible source area includes the Arkhangelsk naval base, where the Russian nuclear submarine fleet is stationed. An incident there may explain the lack of information.

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Re:Sensors detect rise in nuclear particles on Baltic Sea by catalogia on Saturday June 27, 2020 @03:35PM (#23664056)

I think Arkhangelsk being involved seems likely. The Russian ship "Akademik Aleksandrov" aka Project 20183 was apparently in that area recently[1], and seems obviously related to Poseidon[2]. If the source of the radiation were a Poseidon, that would certainly explain the secrecy.

As for claims of the fission products coming from a "civil source", I don't think enough is known about Poseidon's reactors to rule that out. I could be wrong, but as far as I've read the details of that reactor are up in the air (besides being small, obviously.)

[1] https://twitter.com/FrankBottema/status/1276930424170844162

[2] http://www.hisutton.com/Akademik-Aleksandrov.html

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Re:Sensors detect rise in nuclear particles on Baltic Sea by jononor on Sunday June 28, 2020 @05:58AM (#23667751)

I don't see why Swedish or Finnish plant operators would not stay silent for a few days, while working to establish what an incident was or caused by.

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