Fire on Russian nuclear submarine

The BBC reported on December 29, 2011 that a dockside fire had spread to a nuclear power and nuclear armed Russian submarine at the Naval base near Murmansk, requiring a land-based, water-borne, and air-borne fire fighting response, as well as the partial submersion of the vessel to bring the raging inferno under control. Russian autorities claimed that the nuclear weaponry had been removed before the fire started, and assured that the reactor was shut down. However, they did not mention that irradiated nuclear fuel still filled the core of the reactor, not the mention the radioactive contamination throughout the nuclear power system -- all vulnerable to a fire spreading to its compartents.