Submarine Nerpa leaves shipyard for tests after Nov test failure
VLADIVOSTOK. July 10. KAZINFORM The nuclear-powered submarine Nerpa left the Vostok plant, the city of Bolshoi Kamen (the branch of the Amur ship repair plant in the Primorsky Territory) for the Sea of Japan on Friday for the second-time testing, an Amur plant source told Itar-Tass, Kazinform cites ITAR-TASS.
On November 8, 2008, a fire-extinguishing system was automatically activated with freon discharge aboard the submarine during the tests in the Sea of Japan. The submarine was not commissioned yet for the Russian Navy. Twenty people died in the accident, and 21 with poisoning were hospitalised. Three of those who died were servicemen, and the rest 17 were civilians -- workers of the Zvezda, Amur and Era plants. Tests of the new submarine were postponed indefinitely, Kazinform refers to ITAR-TASS.
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