Russian nuclear sub damaged in blaze

A nuclear submarine was damaged when a fire broke out at a Russian ship repair yard today, but there was no radiation leak, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported.

The fire erupted in a Northern Fleet yard in Roslyakovo, near the Arctic port of Murmansk. It spread to scaffolding and singed part of a rubber covering on the nuclear submarine Pskov.

Roslyakovo is where the wreck of the nuclear submarine Kursk was towed in October 2001, a year after it was destroyed by explosions, killing all 188 seamen aboard.

The damaged hull spent months at the dry dock in Roslyakovo before being towed to another facility last April for dismantling.