Kursk Submarine Reaches Shipyard
The battered Kursk submarine reached a Russian shipyard where officials will check its twin nuclear reactors, remove the bodies of the crew members and begin dismantling its deadly missiles.
The Kursk was hauled by a huge barge to a dock at the Roslyakovo ship repair plant near Murmansk.
It will take at least three days to pull the Kursk into the dock with the help of huge pontoons, then five more days to remove the barge and the pontoons and dry out the dock, said Capt. Vladimir M. Navrotsky, chief spokesman for Russia’s Northern Fleet.
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