(AP) Moscow — The Russian Defense Ministry said Friday there has been no radiation leak from the fire, which began Thursday at an Arctic shipyard where the submarine Yekaterinburg was in drydock. Fire brigades are still struggling to put out the fire.
The military says the fire began on wooden scaffolding and then engulfed the submarine’s rubber-coated outer hull. It said the sub’s nuclear reactor had been shut down and its nuclear-tipped missiles and other weapons had been unloaded before the repairs.