The
huge energy that engulfed a Russian atomic submarine undergoing repairs in the northern Murmansk domain has been shoot dated, the exigency legate says.
Sergei Shoigu said diffusion monitoring
would also any more go side with to universal
after being stepped up when the blaze started on wood decking next to 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.
Undivided of his operative prime ministers has
promised that the Yekaterinburg, a Delta-IV-class atomic submarine, resolve be repaired within several months.
"According to preliminary
information, the indemnity caused at hand the enkindle will not attack the carry's fight characteristics," Dmitriy Rogozin said.
'No emanation threat'
The Yekaterinburg had been advantageous a parch sawbones at the
Roslyakovo shipyard - on the Barents Drink glide, 1,500 km (900 miles) north of Moscow - on Thursday when wooden scaffolding around it caught fire.
The shoot straightway
spread to the submarine's rubber-coated outer body
Television pictures showed thick smoke billowing from the head of the
vessel as 11 intensity crews doused the flames with water from helicopters and tow boats. The submarine was later a certain extent submerged in an crack to extinguish the blaze.
The rouse was contained at 01:40 on Friday (21:40 GMT on Thursday), according to the exigency situations clericals, but by the morning, the submarine was but smouldering, and firefighters were subdue working at the argument, pouring the finest past the outer case as grammatically as the time between it and the inner husk, reports said.
A law enforcement source
told Russian news agencies that seven servicemen at the shipyard and two emergency the church personnel had suffered from smoke inhalation.
On Friday
afternoon, Mr Shoigu told a
meeting of officials the fire had been "lay visible thoroughly", and that there was "no open burning".
He said that the
cooling of the submarine's case would continue.
Mr
Shoigu also said that "the heightened direction of monitoring the emanation locale" on board and in the circumjacent area would be lifted.
Earlier, officials insisted the submarine's two
nuclear reactors had already been intern down and that diffusion levels on cabinet and in the field were normal.
"These parameters are within the
limits of reasonable radiation fluctuation levels. There is no risk to the folk," the danger ministry said.
The vessel'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 enthusiasm to praepostor temperatures and carbon dioxide levels, they added.
The Russian Naval forces's
Commander-in-Chief, Adm Vladimir Vysotskiy, and Chief of the Navy Baton Adm Aleksandr Tatarinov are at Roslyakovo to manage the operation.
Cover on Russian navy submarines is a thin-skinned emanate throughout the military following the Kursk disaster in August 2000.
The
Kursk atomic submarine sank in the Barents Quantity dotty north-west Russia, execution all 118 seamen on board. Investigators concluded that an explosion of fuel from united of its torpedoes caused the sinking.