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A fire aboard the nuclear sub Yekaterinburg...built in 1984...docked in the arctic port of Murmansk injured at least 9...and will be investigated...says President Medvedev.
Officials claim there was no radiation leak.
It is the latest accident in Moscow's aging fleet of nuclear subs.
The accident also reveals that area around Murmansk has become Russia's newest unofficial atomic dumping ground.
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