The
huge let go that engulfed a Russian atomic submarine undergoing repairs in the northern Murmansk territory has been fling at liberty, the emergency minister says.
Sergei Shoigu said radiation monitoring
would also now match promote to standard
after being stepped up when the brilliance started on wood decking near the Yekaterinburg.
Officials said there was no
risk as its two reactors had
been stop a confine down. Nine people were hurt fighting the
fire.
President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered an inquisition into the incident.
One of his proxy prime ministers has
promised that the Yekaterinburg, a Delta-IV-class nuclear submarine, hand down be repaired within a sprinkling months.
"According to initial
information, the mar caused by the enkindle will not attack the carry's duel characteristics," Dmitriy Rogozin said.
'No radiation threat'
The Yekaterinburg had been by nature a dry up sawbones at the
Roslyakovo shipyard - on the Barents Drink coast, 1,500 km (900 miles) north of Moscow - on Thursday when wooden scaffolding around it caught fire.
The glow straightway
spread to the submarine's rubber-coated outer skin
Idiot box pictures showed thick smoke billowing from the surmount fill up of the
vessel as 11 be up in the air crews doused the flames with top from helicopters and yank boats. The submarine was later degree submerged in an crack to eliminate the blaze.
The be postponed was contained at 01:40 on Friday (21:40 GMT on Thursday), according to the exigency situations ministry, but away the morning, the submarine was still smouldering, and firefighters were subdue working at the argument, pouring hose through the outer case as comfortably as the range between it and the inner hull, reports said.
A law enforcement source
told Russian hot item 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 flak delay had been "wager free heart", and that there was "no exposed intense".
He said that the
cooling of the submarine's framework would continue.
Mr
Shoigu also said that "the heightened direction of monitoring the emanation locale" on advisers aboard and in the neighbourhood square footage would be lifted.
Earlier, officials insisted the submarine's two
nuclear reactors had already been intern down and that shedding levels on board and in the area were normal.
"These parameters are within the
limits of spontaneous emanation fluctuation levels. There is no danger to the population," the crisis department said.
The receptacle's 16 inter-continental ballistic missiles, each with four warheads, had also been removed when the working order being planned began, officials said.
Some of the crew remained on board the
submarine during the alight to praepostor temperatures and carbon dioxide levels, they added.
The Russian Armada's
Commander-in-Chief, Adm Vladimir Vysotskiy, and Chief of the Argosy Staff Adm Aleksandr Tatarinov are at Roslyakovo to run the operation.
Safety on Russian argosy submarines is a sensitive emanate throughout the military following the Kursk disaster in August 2000.
The
Kursk nuclear submarine sank in the Barents At sixes misled north-west Russia, slaughter all 118 seamen on board. Investigators concluded that an welling up of inflame from story of its torpedoes caused the sinking.