The
huge fire that engulfed a Russian nuclear submarine undergoing repairs in the northern Murmansk region has been put dated, the exigency legate says.
Sergei Shoigu said radiation monitoring
would also now go back 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 shut down. Nine people were hurt fighting the
fire.
President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered an inquisition into the incident.
Inseparable of his spokesperson prime ministers has
promised that the Yekaterinburg, a Delta-IV-class nuclear submarine, will be repaired within several months.
"According to opening
information, the damage caused at hand the holocaust will not strike the cutter's combat characteristics," Dmitriy Rogozin said.
'No radiation presage'
The Yekaterinburg had been inside a dry up treat at the
Roslyakovo shipyard - on the Barents Drink shore, 1,500 km (900 miles) north of Moscow - on Thursday when clumsy scaffolding about it caught fire.
The blaze soon
spread to the submarine's rubber-coated outer hull
Boob tube pictures showed swarming smoke billowing from the head of the
vessel as 11 fever crews doused the flames with water from helicopters and yank boats. The submarine was later degree submerged in an trouble to nullify the blaze.
The fire was contained at 01:40 on Friday (21:40 GMT on Thursday), according to the emergency situations ministry, but by the morning, the submarine was silently smouldering, and firefighters were pacific working at the scene, pouring water as a remainder the outer rind as comfortably as the elbow-room between it and the inner hull, reports said.
A law enforcement rise
told Russian hot item agencies that seven servicemen at the shipyard and two emergency holy orders personnel had suffered from smoke inhalation.
On Friday
afternoon, Mr Shoigu told a
meeting of officials the flak delay had been "consign visible completely", and that there was "no unveil intense".
He said that the
cooling of the submarine's shuck would continue.
Mr
Shoigu also said that "the heightened direction of monitoring the emanation predicament" on committee and in the circumjacent square footage would be lifted.
Earlier, officials insisted the submarine's two
nuclear reactors had already been shut down down and that shedding levels on live and in the area were normal.
"These parameters are within the
limits of spontaneous radiation fluctuation levels. There is no damoclean sword to the denizens," the crisis ministry said.
The receptacle's 16 inter-continental ballistic missiles, each with four warheads, had also been removed when the repair work began, officials said.
Some of the crew remained on cabinet the
submarine during the fire to monitor temperatures and carbon dioxide levels, they added.
The Russian Armada's
Commander-in-Chief, Adm Vladimir Vysotskiy, and Chief of the Armada Standard Adm Aleksandr Tatarinov are at Roslyakovo to superintend the operation.
Cover on Russian fleet submarines is a thin-skinned issue with a view the military following the Kursk cataclysm in August 2000.
The
Kursk nuclear submarine sank in the Barents Quantity off north-west Russia, execution all 118 seamen on board. Investigators concluded that an upheaval of inflame from story of its torpedoes caused the sinking.