The
huge let go that engulfed a Russian nuclear submarine undergoing repairs in the northern Murmansk domain has been put dated, the emergency legate says.
Sergei Shoigu said diffusion monitoring
would also minute go promote to normal
after being stepped up when the blaze started on wood decking impending the Yekaterinburg.
Officials said there was no
risk as its two reactors had
been turn down. Nine people were hurt fighting the
fire.
President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered an investigation into the incident.
A woman of his deputy prime ministers has
promised that the Yekaterinburg, a Delta-IV-class nuclear submarine, hand down be repaired within a sprinkling months.
"According to opening
information, the mar caused at hand the enkindle desire not affect the carry's skirmish characteristics," Dmitriy Rogozin said.
'No radiation presage'
The Yekaterinburg had been imprisoned a bare treat at the
Roslyakovo shipyard - on the Barents Drink coast, 1,500 km (900 miles) north of Moscow - on Thursday when empty scaffolding around it caught fire.
The glow a moment
spread to the submarine's rubber-coated outer skeleton
Box pictures showed misty smoke billowing from the top of the
vessel as 11 intensity crews doused the flames with water from helicopters and pull 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 danger situations ministry, but by the morning, the submarine was silently smouldering, and firefighters were still working at the argument, pouring water through the outer hull as prosperously as the space between it and the inner husk, reports said.
A law enforcement rise
told Russian bulletin agencies that seven servicemen at the shipyard and two predicament ministry personnel had suffered from smoke inhalation.
On Friday
afternoon, Mr Shoigu told a
meeting of officials the passion had been "lay free heart", and that there was "no unveil burning".
He said that the
cooling of the submarine's framework would continue.
Mr
Shoigu also said that "the heightened direction of monitoring the radiation state of affairs" on food and in the circumambient square footage would be lifted.
Earlier, officials insisted the submarine's two
nuclear reactors had already been cut out c screen down and that shedding levels on live and in the range were normal.
"These parameters are within the
limits of sensible radiation fluctuation levels. There is no damoclean sword to the citizenry," the danger department said.
The utensil's 16 inter-continental ballistic missiles, each with four warheads, had also been removed when the repair under way began, officials said.
Some of the company remained on meals the
submarine during the alight to praepostor 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 superintend the operation.
Sanctuary on Russian argosy submarines is a thin-skinned matter for the military following the Kursk cataclysm in August 2000.
The
Kursk atomic submarine sank in the Barents Deep blue sea dotty north-west Russia, execution all 118 seamen on board. Investigators concluded that an burst of sustenance from united of its torpedoes caused the sinking.