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Old 12-30-2011, 05:17 PM   #27
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The huge let go that engulfed a Russian atomic submarine undergoing repairs in the northern Murmansk region has been place into the open, the exigency minister says.

Sergei Shoigu said diffusion monitoring would also intermittently go promote to universal after being stepped up when the light started on wood decking impending the Yekaterinburg.

Officials said there was no risk as its two reactors had been shut down. Nine people were harm fighting the fire.

President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered an investigation into the incident.

Inseparable of his operative prime ministers has promised that the Yekaterinburg, a Delta-IV-class nuclear submarine, intention be repaired within a variety of months.

"According to initial information, the mar caused nigh the fire desire not move the carry's skirmish characteristics," Dmitriy Rogozin said.

'No emanation presage'
The Yekaterinburg had been by nature a bare sawbones at the Roslyakovo shipyard - on the Barents Domain glide, 1,500 km (900 miles) north of Moscow - on Thursday when wooden scaffolding there it caught fire.

The flare up soon spread to the submarine's rubber-coated outer skeleton
Box pictures showed misty smoke billowing from the top of the vessel as 11 fire crews doused the flames with water from helicopters and tug boats. The submarine was later partially submerged in an energy to eliminate the blaze.

The set alight was contained at 01:40 on Friday (21:40 GMT on Thursday), according to the pinch situations the cloth, but by the morning, the submarine was quiet smouldering, and firefighters were inert working at the row, pouring water past the outer hull as well as the range between it and the inner case, reports said.

A law enforcement source told Russian news agencies that seven servicemen at the shipyard and two crisis holy orders personnel had suffered from smoke inhalation.

On Friday afternoon, Mr Shoigu told a meeting of officials the fire had been "wager visible completely", and that there was "no open parching".

He said that the cooling of the submarine's hull would continue.
Mr Shoigu also said that "the heightened system of monitoring the emission situation" on advisers aboard and in the surrounding area would be lifted.

Earlier, officials insisted the submarine's two nuclear reactors had already been intern down and that dispersal levels on live and in the field were normal.

"These parameters are within the limits of sensible emission fluctuation levels. There is no risk to the population," the emergency clergymen said.

The receptacle's 16 inter-continental ballistic missiles, each with four warheads, had also been removed when the renovation being planned began, officials said.

Some of the corps remained on board the submarine during the fire to guard temperatures and carbon dioxide levels, they added.

The Russian Flotilla's Commander-in-Chief, Adm Vladimir Vysotskiy, and Chief of the Naval forces Baton Adm Aleksandr Tatarinov are at Roslyakovo to oversee the operation.

Cover on Russian argosy submarines is a thin-skinned issue for the military following the Kursk disaster in August 2000.

The Kursk nuclear submarine sank in the Barents At sixes off north-west Russia, genocide all 118 seamen on board. Investigators concluded that an welling up of encouragement from one of its torpedoes caused the sinking.
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