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Caught On Tape: Fire Breaks Out On Docked Russian Nuclear Submarine
It was not a pleasant sight for hundreds of onlookers at the Zvezdochka shipyard in Russia's Arkhangelsk region overnight when an Oscar II-class nuclear sub undergoing repair work suddenly caught on fire. According to RIA, which cited a spokesman for the shipyard, Evgeny Gladyshev "the fire started in the ninth section of the sub close to the stern. All the personnel left the submarine and fire brigades are currently dousing the flames."
Oryol submarine fire photos via @fotoflota. http://t.co/KL6afi4weZ
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A photo and a schematic of the Oscar II class submarine is shown below.
The location of the Zvezdochka shipyard is shown below:
As RT adds, the fire broke out onboard the K-266 Oryol, an Oscar II-class nuclear-powered submarine, which is part of Russia’s Northern Fleet. The shipyard is overhauling the sub to prolong its active service, so its nuclear reactor was shut down and its weapons unloaded before the repair works started.
The Oryol entered service in December 1992. It was transported to the shipyard in November 2013 for a scheduled overhaul, which is to last until 2016. Here is the Oryol submarine undergoing maintenance in this mid-March photo.
Preliminary reports say the fire was caused by a welding accident, which resulted in the ignition of the rubber insulation between the sub’s two hulls, according to Gladyshev.
The photo below shows an Oscar II class submarine docked at the shipyard.
As RT further reports, Oscar II submarines, designated Project 959A Antey in the Russian Navy, are designed to attack aircraft carrier groups with P-700 Granit (SS-N-19 Shipwreck according to NATO designation) supersonic cruise missiles as their primary weapons. A total of 11 such submarines were built. The nuclear sub Kursk that sank in August 2000, killing all submariners aboard, belonged to this class. Two others were decommissioned while the others remain in active service.
This is not the first time in recent years Russia has had a similar maintenance accident: a similar fire at a nuclear submarine occurred in Russia in December 2011, when the K-84 Yekaterinburg of Delta-IV class caught fire during welding works at a shipbuilding dock. The fire, which was caused by a violation of safety guidelines, first ignited scaffolding around the sub and later spread to the insulation between its hulls.
The massive fire, which lasted for some 20 hours, left nine people injured after inhaling toxic fumes and caused dozens of millions of dollars worth of damage.
This time, there was no reported injuries and there was no estimate of the damage as of this moment.
Which is lucky, because as the following video shows, the raging fire appears to have been in close proximity to the sub's nuclear reactors and the outcome could have been significantly worse.
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Fire in the Hole...er, Hull!!!!
What did one russian nuclear fireman say to the other ?
You first
Not fair. When Chernobyl blew there was real, certain death heroism.
The way the Russians are torching these subs I'm starting to think it's some kind of insurance scam.
Russian subs are notorious for fires, this was merely caught on video....
Krugmanism
crazy Ivan . Thankfully no one died this time .
Well theres plenty of water should a need arise; it's not California
It's no wonder all the fish in the med and Baltic Sea are contaminated.
i dont know how but im sure vodka was involved.
Maybe tea and crumpets are involved...or fish and chips...
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/legacy-danger-old-nuclear-was...
Maybe the water that came into the Baltic was already radioactive lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX_lzoYl9AU
This is the English version which we hope you will mirror and call attention to. It discusses the effects of sea dumping of radioactive waste on the health of people living on the local coasts, like the Irish Sea and the Baltic Sea, which is the most radioactive sea in the world. The documentary focuses on the British sea dumping in the English Channel Hurd Deep about 12 miles north of the Channel Island of Alderney. Alderney is also subject to releases to the sea from the French Nuclear Reprocessing Plant at Cap de la La Hague 12 miles East of the small island. Prof Chris Busby who was consulted on the health effects of this marine radioactive pollution visits the island with the producers and makes measurements of contamination on the beach. Busby originally visited the island in 1998 with Jersey MP Stuart Syvret and found an excess of brain tumours and also general cancer mortality which was written up as a Green Audit paper and became part of a BBC news story at the time. They were both chased off the island.
Manfred Ladwig manages to get Dr John Cooper, head of the UK radiological protection organisation, the HPA, to admit that they balance childhood cancer cases against the advantages of cheaply disposing of nuclear waste. Cooper also agrees that his position involves a conflict of interest since he is head of HPA which takes advice on radiation protection from ICRP. Cooper is on the ICRP committee. He therefore takes advice from himself. We also hear from Prof Richard Wakeford, ex head of research for Sellafield, but now an "independent" expert, also on ICRP, who tells us the coastal child leukemias were caused by "population mixing". How long do we have to be subject to advice from these clowns?
Go and enjoy your Californian fresh glowing fish :)
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Kind of a drag.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUyyfC7rsQY
Roland Oliphant reporting an mi5 stooge who stated he saw russian tanks invading ukrainia 7 months ago.
he forgot his camera did not even have a video on his telephone.
we just had to take his word for it.
gabriel gatehouse was on the scene when saddam was pulled out of a hole in the ground.
chatham house brookings royal instiitute of international affairs.
you could call these bbc types low level city of london queens men.
very suspect yes sir
You should add:
Five isreaelis had setup cameras on the WTC before 9/11 and after that and all the dancing they said: We are Israelis. We are not your problem.
Just had to take their word for it.
I would be more concerned with the rusted out scaffolding.
Short term attention span theater proudly presents:
Big fucking deal... a fire in the shipyards aboard a nuclear sub overgoing overhaul. Like that shit never happens to U.S. nuclear subs while in the shipyard...
http://www.seacoastonline.com/article/20141113/NEWS/141119586/0/SEARCH?t...
http://www.centralmaine.com/2014/11/13/navy-cites-complacency-in-fire-th...
Those were two good finds.
No! That's just RT propaganda!
Those stories are total fakes, trying to make God's America look bad.
You just have to believe me.
NEWSFLASH !
Fire Started by Welding Torch !
Next BIG NEWSFLASH !
Fire Started by Faulty/old Electrical Wiring !
Makes you wonder if writers and the majority of the public have any experience with real things in the physical world, - not just shuffling paper or looking at computer screens.
nuke isisnow shill should read it .
Captain Ramius: You will go with the men in the life rafts. The officers and I will submerge beneath you, and scuttle the ship.
Dr. Petrov: You will receive the Order of Lenin for this Captain!
Smokin in the boys room, it will do it every time.
Quality in manufactuing and processes. Pass the Vodka.
Junk away Russo-philes
Like the F-35?
It don't float
Probably floats better than it flies though.
There is a Soviet submarine leaking radioactive STUFF for about 30+ years off coast of Norway.
I saw a report on 60 Minutes probably 30 years ago they showed codfish with 3 eyes.
The Atlantic was the safest compared to the dying Pacific, nuclear power, weapons, the Devil's creation.
Together, they dumped a total of 85,100 TBq (85.1x1015Bq) of radioactive waste at over 100 ocean sites, as measured in initial radioactivity at the time of dump.
'splains why my King Oscar brislings now glow in the dark! But one wonders if it's better/worse then Fuki salmon from Alaska?
Anyone else hear that NPR report about the soaring number of sea lions washing up on the west coast?
See my links above...
You forgot the British sub with $1 million of damage from surfacing in the arctic having shadowed Russian subs. These things happen and British subs have quiite a track record on "problems"
Given Fiat and their electrical wiring problems, stay far away from Italian subs.
In future welding, it will be MANDATORY!!...Fireman with extinguisher, adjacent to any welder at the ready!
gosh, 'folks', makes people think you're new at this
Probably using Chinese fire extinguishers...
There should be internal fire suppression systems, but since it was in dock and uncrewed, they were not operable, and no trained crew was there to isolate and contain it. Shipyard workers are notorious for running away and calling the fire brigades.
This shows serious sloppy management. A Naval Fire Brigade trained for this should have been 5 minutes away at the shipyard.
Obviously not.
Paid to look the other way, perhaps?
I wonder if the insulation is for temperature and sound. Some of the Russian subs are very quiet. I think Germany and Sweden have the quietest subs.
It could be worse for Russia. Their air force, navy and marines could have the F-35.
Oscar
Interesting name for a vehicle shaped like a hotdog.
Yes, contrast between putin corrupt regime chaos and developed western world – is colossal - just look at these pictures of cities in same region where EU countries as Norway, Finland meets Russia under corrupt oligarh putin regime:
http://www.interpretermag.com/russia-update-april-3-2015/
Finish towns:
The town of Joensuu was founded by Russians (Tsar Nicholas II) but is part of Finland. Its neighbors in Naystenyarvi, unfortunately, have it all the opposite -- that's a village of Finns vegetating now in the Russian Federation. Who was luckier -- judge for yourself.
Joensuu is where the legendary Finnish butter Valio is made and the tractors of the American company John Deere known to some Ukrainian farmers. In Naystenyarvi, only lumber is produced.
http://www.interpretermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Joensuu-1.jpg
http://www.interpretermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Joensuu-2.jpg
Ivalo
Four hours' drive (300 km) from Pechenga (see below) there is another village -- the Finnish town of Ivalo with a population of just 4,000 people. This is a famous tourist center in Finland. Russians love to travel there on vacation.
http://www.interpretermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Ivalo-1.jpg
Kemijärvi
To the annoyance of the hurrah-patriots, Kandalakshi has a brother city in Finland, Kemiyarvi from whom it is worth studying city planning and city management. The most northern town in Finland, although it is four times as less as its brother, it looks far more decent. There is a celluloid and paper plant in the city, and the tourist business is being developed. The European championship for snowball fights is regularly held here.
http://www.interpretermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Kemiyarvi.jpg
Sodankyla
The Lapland community of Sodankyla is at almost the same latitude as Kovdor. It also has rich natural resources - copper and nickel ore deposits. Even so, it actively profits from tourism -- sleigh rides, fishing, gold-mining, bird-watching, and many other serious forms of relaxation. You wouldn't say that these cities are next to each other.
http://www.interpretermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Sodankyulya-2.j...
Town in Norway
Kirkenes
8 km from the Russian Norwegian border (or an hour from Nikel -- a distance of 55 km) there is a tourist and shopping mecca for the residents of Murmansk Region -- the Norwegian city of Kirkenes. For Russians it is attractive not only because of the hyper-markets with the high-quality, accessible goods (clothing and footwear, above all). Russian fishing ships come here to unload their catch and for repairs.
The lack of bureaucracy and corrupt services, and the openness to business enables them to spend 40 minutes on filling out documents and gaining permission to enter the port. In Murmansk, ship-owners spend an entire three days on that procedure.
In Kirkenes there are so many Russians that even the signs are doubled with the Russian language. It is clearly more pleasant here for them than in Nikel. Although it is apparently the same climate.
http://www.interpretermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Kirekenes.jpg
http://www.interpretermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Kirekenes-2.jpg
Russian Towns
Nikel
The territory of the village of Nikel was once part of Finland, but after World War II, "reunited" with the USSR. The village of Nikel and the city of Zapolyarny are next to each other. Between them is located the Pechenganikel, a mining and smelting plant founded in the pre-Soviet period by a Canadian-Finnish firm. Since nature and ecology are clearly not a priority among the local residents, the territory of these populated areas is scorched earth made by pollutants. Travelers in fact call this area "Mordor," and the local residents, when they land in nearby Kirkenes and Finland think they have ended up in heaven.
http://www.interpretermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Nikel-1.jpg
http://www.interpretermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Nikel-4.jpg
http://www.interpretermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Nikel-3.jpg
http://www.interpretermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Nikel-2.jpg
http://www.interpretermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Zapolyarny.png
Kovdor
On the border of Finland there is located another Russian industrial town -- Kovdor. The Kovdor Mining Processing Plant, besides the iron ore and the apatite concentrate is the only producer in the world of baddeleyite concentrate (which is used in ceramics and the manufacturing of refractories). This is a unique plant of its type.
But it looks as if the presence of such a plant does not affect the welfare of the city in the slightest. There is practically no business. Out of 800 million rubles in the city budget(about $12 million), taxes from small business make up only 1%.
http://www.interpretermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Kovdor.png
http://www.interpretermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Kovdor-3.png
Kandalaksha
This regional center was always "primordial Russian" going back to the XVI century. Since then, it has not changed very much. But the central government in Moscow doesn't hasten to help the local Russians. They're rescuing for now some other Russians in far-away warm Crimea.
http://www.interpretermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Kandalaksha.jpg
http://www.interpretermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Kandalaksha-41....
http://www.interpretermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Kandalaksha-3.j...
Pechenga
The once Finnish village of Petsamo (now Russian Pechenga) is interesting for the fact that next to it is an army base in which is located the 61st Naval Infantry Regiment of the Northern Fleet. With their slogan "Where we are, there is victory," they take part in the war for the Donbass, "defending" Russians from Ukrainian nationalists.
http://www.interpretermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Pecheng-2.png
Most likely, they understand well in Pechenga what "civilization" they are bringing to Ukrainian towns. But they don't see anything bad in that. The main thing after all is an awareness of one's own military might, and not clean streets and food in the stores.
http://www.interpretermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Pecheng.png
Naystenyarvi
This village was minding its own business in Finland when by a "miracle" in 1944 it ended up in the economic embrace of the Soviet Union. Now there is a school, a post office and a Sberbank there. The local residents chop wood, which is sold abroad. True, the wealth of the nature here for some reaon has not brought prosperity to the population.
http://www.interpretermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Naystenyarvi-1....
http://www.interpretermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Naystenyarvi-2....
at&t connection speed down to about 150 Baud. Nice pics though from what I got...
This is the nation that will topple the U.S.
19 submarines accidents in last decade with US leading with 9 . But give it a toss ma fellow patriots . We're invinvcible and exceptional . Russians sucks .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/8589141/22-submarines-in-...
Scared of truth Latvian doodle .
No the USA is already toppled by dual passport holders of a little shit country called Israhell.
Isn't Interpreter Mag a butthurt Khordokovsky rag?
They do make it all pretty and official looking though. He must still have a lot of money left.
every link is to the exiled oligarch's "truthy" rag, eh?
Fuck you you fucking troll.
I just see a couple of nice towns. Now take a couple of heavy industrialized towns from any of those countries and you gonna see the same shit: pollution, drunk people and nothing else to do.
Interpretmag - Institute of modern russia - a ny-based think tank???
fuck you you fucking troll!!
Reactors are shut down and all fuel is removed before work begins. I can only imagine a u.s corporation not shutting down reactors in their never ending quest to 'save money'...
Apparently the rubber between the hull caught fire from some ongoing welding...
rubber??? meet Roxul...
Doesn't burn and cheap...
It was Comrade Boogyman.
There's a very serious design flaw reflecting major brain damage in all nuclear powered vessels, since if the enemy ever sinks one it may ultimately do much more damage to him than to the side targeted. The Russians want see if they can use a Sunburn to blast the hell out of a US nuclear aircraft carrier or submarine on patrol in the Black Sea? And right next to the beach resort where Putin and the oligarchs are galavanting topless in front of the babes?....oh wait.
why is this news?
Shit like this happens all the time.
Why doesn't Subway sell a nuclear submarnine?
Latvian newsoutlet and Leszek a.k.a. freedom123, viedoklis_lv
A never ending stream of anti putin hysteria and Russian conspiracies with links and youtube videos.
Why not just do a new Latvian Austin Powers movie and cancel replace
Dr. Evil with an Evil Putin character? Porkyshenko could be fat bastard!
Russia should capture the American Harlot - The Japan
And then learn some tricks about quality management techniques.
BTW it reminds us that Russian submarines are the only insurance against western looting of the world.
Russia - Please increase your fleet & keep enemies closer (to your submarines) . I would advice to keep America encircled within a 5 minute launch of big missiles.