[user_50123890]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbdAa9qXQAYji-z?format=jpg&name=...

Spoiler: 99% chance it's from Russia.

[guerrilla]

80% of that area covered is not in Russia btw.

[user_50123890]

? Nuclear accidents don't come out of thin air, they are caused by humans, some countries/areas have higher risks of accidents, and most areas have zero risk.

Russia is definitely a high risk area (if not THE high risk area), considering their soviet legacy of ancient nuclear power plants etc.

[rurban]

50/50 Either Tallin or St Petersburg. One of them is not in Russia, but both are Russian-style (ie Chernobyl) water pressure reactors. One of them leaked in a massive scale, but thanksfully only twice.

[eveningcoffee]

Please stop spreading false information. Estonia does not have nuclear reactors and Tallinn is written with only 1 n in Russian.

[Nginx487]

Estonia would have immediately shared the information about the accident with the allies. Russia always (without exceptions) tries to hide it from the world

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/08/12/security-brief-russia-w...

[rurban]

Yes, I was wrong. The 2nd nearby is Murmansk, and that's to far away for that measurements. So it's clear that it was from the stone aged St Petersburg plant, a design before Chernobyl 3+4 (which was iter 2). Their broken Unit 1 is shut down, but the old 2-4 are still online, plus 4 modern ones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningrad_Nuclear_Power_Plant

Or that military ship Akademik Aleksandrov which was nearby at that time. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23664056

[catalogia]

Despite what the article may say, I think it's premature to rule out a naval reactor.

[BurningFrog]

I'd expect Estonia to have admitted it already if it was on their side.

For Russia, my expectations are completely different.

[ProblemFactory]

I'd expect Estonia to be very surprised and alarmed if it was on their side, given that there are no nuclear power stations or weapons in Estonia.