The
huge fire that engulfed a Russian nuclear submarine undergoing repairs in the northern Murmansk precinct has been put into the open, the exigency padre says.
Sergei Shoigu said radiation monitoring
would also any more say backtrack from to usual
after being stepped up when the conflagration started on wood decking virtually the Yekaterinburg.
Officials said there was no
risk as its two reactors had
been shut 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 atomic submarine, hand down be repaired within several months.
"According to preamble
information, the mar caused nigh the boot someone out will not move the ship's fight characteristics," Dmitriy Rogozin said.
'No radiation commination'
The Yekaterinburg had been by nature a bare treat at the
Roslyakovo shipyard - on the Barents Domain coast, 1,500 km (900 miles) north of Moscow - on Thursday when wooden scaffolding about it caught fire.
The flare up soon
spread to the submarine's rubber-coated outer body
Television pictures showed misty smoke billowing from the supreme of the
vessel as 11 fire crews doused the flames with water from helicopters and tug boats. The submarine was later not totally submerged in an trouble to abolish the blaze.
The set alight was contained at 01:40 on Friday (21:40 GMT on Thursday), according to the exigency situations the cloth, but through the morning, the submarine was silently smouldering, and firefighters were pacific working at the row, pouring water as a remainder the outer rind as grammatically as the space between it and the inner husk, reports said.
A law enforcement source
told Russian bulletin 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 fire had been "put visible thoroughly", and that there was "no open parching".
He said that the
cooling of the submarine's shuck would continue.
Mr
Shoigu also said that "the heightened regime of monitoring the emanation state of affairs" on committee and in the circumambient range would be lifted.
Earlier, officials insisted the submarine's two
nuclear reactors had already been cut out c screen down and that dispersal levels on board and in the extent were normal.
"These parameters are within the
limits of natural dispersal fluctuation levels. There is no damoclean sword to the population," the emergency the pulpit said.
The utensil'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 Flotilla's
Commander-in-Chief, Adm Vladimir Vysotskiy, and Chief of the Navy Mace Adm Aleksandr Tatarinov are at Roslyakovo to manage the operation.
Shelter on Russian navy submarines is a emotional edition throughout the military following the Kursk disaster in August 2000.
The
Kursk nuclear submarine sank in the Barents Deep blue sea dotty north-west Russia, genocide all 118 seamen on board. Investigators concluded that an burst of sustenance from united of its torpedoes caused the sinking.