A recent nuclear leak may relate to one of the country’s new nuclear-powered strategic weapons. These are part of a range of new ‘super weapons’ unveiled by President Putin on March 1, 2018. Russia is testing a nuclear-powered mega-torpedo called Poseidon, and a nuclear-powered cruise missile called Burevestnik. If either are to blame, then it would not be the first radiation spike caused by testing one of these weapons.
Forbes: Russia’s new super weapons may be cause of radiation leak
This archive photo shows Russian nuclear submarine, the Yuri Dolgoruky, driving in the water area of the Sevmash factory in the northern city of Arkhangelsk on July 2, 2009.