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Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Fire-struck sub back on water
A proud ceremony took place in Severodvinsk as the navy’s “Yekaterinburg” was taken out from workshop at Zvezdochka yard after two years of repair and upgrades.
Expert on nuclear safety with the Bellona Foundation in Norway, Nils Bøhmer, says to BarentsObserver that the submarine should not have been put on water again.
““It is alarming that such an old submarine, so extensively destroyed by a major fire, now is back on the water again. There is unfortunately a big risk that next time this submarine is hit by a fire or other accident, we could have a real disaster,” says nuclear physisist Nils Bøhmer.
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Russia must be desperate to deploy such an old, damaged SSBN. Normal rust and corrosion generally limits subs life to 30 years.
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