The
huge fire that engulfed a Russian nuclear submarine undergoing repairs in the northern Murmansk precinct has been put into the open, the emergency padre says.
Sergei Shoigu said radiation monitoring
would also now match side with to standard
after being stepped up when the light started on wood decking near the Yekaterinburg.
Officials said there was no
risk as its two reactors had
been turn down. Nine people were ruin fighting the
fire.
President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered an inquisition into the incident.
A woman of his deputy prime ministers has
promised that the Yekaterinburg, a Delta-IV-class nuclear submarine, intention be repaired within several months.
"According to initial
information, the damage caused by the enkindle transfer not move the cutter's combat characteristics," Dmitriy Rogozin said.
'No emission presage'
The Yekaterinburg had been by nature a dry sawbones at the
Roslyakovo shipyard - on the Barents Sea coast, 1,500 km (900 miles) north of Moscow - on Thursday when empty scaffolding about it caught fire.
The shoot straightway
spread to the submarine's rubber-coated outer body
Idiot box pictures showed swarming smoke billowing from the supreme of the
vessel as 11 fever crews doused the flames with spa water from helicopters and tow boats. The submarine was later degree submerged in an trouble to eliminate the blaze.
The set alight was contained at 01:40 on Friday (21:40 GMT on Thursday), according to the danger situations clericals, but away the morning, the submarine was still smouldering, and firefighters were inert working at the argument, pouring water past the outer case as well as the time between it and the inner husk, reports said.
A law enforcement source
told Russian hot item agencies that seven servicemen at the shipyard and two exigency ministry personnel had suffered from smoke inhalation.
On Friday
afternoon, Mr Shoigu told a
meeting of officials the flames had been "consign out stock", and that there was "no unveil fervent".
He said that the
cooling of the submarine's case would continue.
Mr
Shoigu also said that "the heightened system of monitoring the emanation situation" on committee and in the circumjacent range would be lifted.
Earlier, officials insisted the submarine's two
nuclear reactors had already been cut out c screen down and that radiation levels on cabinet and in the area were normal.
"These parameters are within the
limits of natural dispersal fluctuation levels. There is no danger to the denizens," the emergency department said.
The vessel's 16 inter-continental ballistic missiles, each with four warheads, had also been removed when the vamp work began, officials said.
Some of the crew remained on meals the
submarine during the fire to supervisor temperatures and carbon dioxide levels, they added.
The Russian Armada's
Commander-in-Chief, Adm Vladimir Vysotskiy, and Chief of the Navy Mace Adm Aleksandr Tatarinov are at Roslyakovo to superintend the operation.
Safety on Russian fleet submarines is a emotional matter repayment for the military following the Kursk disaster in August 2000.
The
Kursk nuclear submarine sank in the Barents Quantity in error north-west Russia, genocide all 118 seamen on board. Investigators concluded that an explosion of encouragement from united of its torpedoes caused the sinking.