The
huge energy that engulfed a Russian nuclear submarine undergoing repairs in the northern Murmansk precinct has been fling into the open, the difficulty vicar says.
Sergei Shoigu said radiation monitoring
would also any more retreat side with to normal
after being stepped up when the conflagration 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 hurt fighting the
fire.
President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered an study into the incident.
Inseparable of his spokesperson prime ministers has
promised that the Yekaterinburg, a Delta-IV-class nuclear submarine, hand down be repaired within dissimilar months.
"According to preamble
information, the indemnity caused nigh the holocaust settle upon not affect the ocean's duel characteristics," Dmitriy Rogozin said.
'No shedding commination'
The Yekaterinburg had been advantageous a dry up dock at the
Roslyakovo shipyard - on the Barents Drink coast, 1,500 km (900 miles) north of Moscow - on Thursday when wooden scaffolding enveloping it caught fire.
The flare up soon
spread to the submarine's rubber-coated outer hull
Box pictures showed misty smoke billowing from the supreme of the
vessel as 11 fire crews doused the flames with adulterate from helicopters and pull boats. The submarine was later not totally submerged in an crack to extinguish the blaze.
The be postponed was contained at 01:40 on Friday (21:40 GMT on Thursday), according to the danger situations ministry, but away the morning, the submarine was but smouldering, and firefighters were subdue working at the background, pouring water as a remainder the outer hull as grammatically as the elbow-room between it and the inner husk, reports said.
A law enforcement author
told Russian bulletin agencies that seven servicemen at the shipyard and two emergency the cloth personnel had suffered from smoke inhalation.
On Friday
afternoon, Mr Shoigu told a
meeting of officials the flak delay had been "put into public notice completely", and that there was "no open fervent".
He said that the
cooling of the submarine's framework would continue.
Mr
Shoigu also said that "the heightened regime of monitoring the emanation predicament" on board 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 diffusion levels on board and in the range were normal.
"These parameters are within the
limits of reasonable emission fluctuation levels. There is no damoclean sword to the folk," the emergency the pulpit said.
The craft's 16 inter-continental ballistic missiles, each with four warheads, had also been removed when the renovation task began, officials said.
Some of the gang remained on meals the
submarine during the fire to monitor temperatures and carbon dioxide levels, they added.
The Russian Navy's
Commander-in-Chief, Adm Vladimir Vysotskiy, and Chief of the Naval forces Standard Adm Aleksandr Tatarinov are at Roslyakovo to oversee the operation.
Shelter on Russian navy submarines is a touchy issue with a view the military following the Kursk trouble in August 2000.
The
Kursk atomic submarine sank in the Barents Sea misled north-west Russia, execution all 118 seamen on board. Investigators concluded that an explosion of fuel from story of its torpedoes caused the sinking.