ROUGH CUT - NO REPORTER NARRATION<br/> STORY: A fire broke out aboard a Russian nuclear submarine during repair work at a shipyard on Thursday (December 29) but emergency officials said radiation levels were normal.<br/> A Russian Navy spokesman said all the weapons had been removed from the Yekaterinburg nuclear submarine, which launched a ballistic missile from the Barents Sea as recently as July, before repair work started, Interfax news agency reported.<br/> The Defence Ministry said the nuclear reactor had been shut down.<br/> The fire is believed to have started when wooden scaffolding caught fire during repairs to the K-84 submarine, which some Russian news agencies said had been hoisted into a dry dock.<br/> Russia's worst post-Soviet submarine disaster occurred in August 2000 when the Kursk nuclear submarine sank in the Barents Sea killing all 118 crew aboard.
