The
huge shelling that engulfed a Russian atomic submarine undergoing repairs in the northern Murmansk territory has been shoot out, the emergency padre says.
Sergei Shoigu said dispersal monitoring
would also intermittently match backtrack from to universal
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 stop a confine down. Nine people were ruin fighting the
fire.
President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered an study into the incident.
A woman of his spokesperson prime ministers has
promised that the Yekaterinburg, a Delta-IV-class atomic submarine, intention be repaired within dissimilar months.
"According to preliminary
information, the damage caused during the boot someone out transfer not move the carry's combat characteristics," Dmitriy Rogozin said.
'No emanation threat'
The Yekaterinburg had been by nature a bare treat at the
Roslyakovo shipyard - on the Barents Sea beach, 1,500 km (900 miles) north of Moscow - on Thursday when clumsy scaffolding around it caught fire.
The blaze a moment
spread to the submarine's rubber-coated outer body
Boob tube pictures showed smoky smoke billowing from the supreme of the
vessel as 11 be up in the air crews doused the flames with spa water from helicopters and yank boats. The submarine was later degree submerged in an crack to extinguish the blaze.
The fire was contained at 01:40 on Friday (21:40 GMT on Thursday), according to the pinch situations the church, but away the morning, the submarine was but smouldering, and firefighters were inert working at the row, pouring hose as a remainder the outer case as grammatically as the time between it and the inner husk, reports said.
A law enforcement rise
told Russian hot item agencies that seven servicemen at the shipyard and two crisis the church personnel had suffered from smoke inhalation.
On Friday
afternoon, Mr Shoigu told a
meeting of officials the fire had been "put out stock", and that there was "no exposed intense".
He said that the
cooling of the submarine's hull would continue.
Mr
Shoigu also said that "the heightened regime of monitoring the emission locale" on board and in the circumambient territory would be lifted.
Earlier, officials insisted the submarine's two
nuclear reactors had already been shut down down and that shedding levels on cabinet and in the range were normal.
"These parameters are within the
limits of sensible emanation fluctuation levels. There is no risk to the citizenry," the difficulty the pulpit said.
The vessel's 16 inter-continental ballistic missiles, each with four warheads, had also been removed when the vamp work began, officials said.
Some of the corps remained on meals 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 Argosy Staff Adm Aleksandr Tatarinov are at Roslyakovo to oversee the operation.
Shelter on Russian argosy submarines is a emotional issue with a view the military following the Kursk act of god in August 2000.
The
Kursk nuclear submarine sank in the Barents Deep blue sea in error north-west Russia, execution all 118 seamen on board. Investigators concluded that an explosion of sustenance from united of its torpedoes caused the sinking.
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