nuclear Russian submarine fire with no one injured and normal level of radiation

 nuclear Russian submarine fire with no one injured and normal level of radiation

(Reuters) - Russia used helicopters and tugboats to battle a fire that engulfed a nuclear submarine docked at a shipyard on Thursday but emergency officials said radiation levels were normal.

A local television channel showed a giant plume of smoke above the yard in the Murmansk region of northern Russia and said helicopters were trying to douse flames which witnesses said rose 10 meters (30 feet) above the stricken vessel.

Russia said all weapons had been removed from the 167-metre (550 feet) Yekaterinburg, which launched a ballistic missile from the Barents Sea as recently as July, and that the nuclear reactor had been shut down.

"Radiation levels are normal," a spokeswoman for the emergencies ministry said. "No one was injured."

Sources:
Reuters