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...GETTING INTO DRY DOCK Once the Kursk is held fast to the Giant 4, a tugboat will begin the long pull to dry dock in Roslyakovo, Russia. There, two additional water-filled pontoons will be attached alongside the barge...
...water is pumped out of the pontoons, the ships should rise high enough in the water to fit into the dry dock. Tugboats will guide the unwieldy craft into place. In the dock, the cables to the Kursk will be lowered, the plugs removed and the sub released Tugboats will then pull the Giant 4 and the pontoons out of the dry dock. The dock holding the sub will then be raised from the water...
Later, what's left of the Kursk will be towed to another shipyard, where it will be defueled and scrapped...
NUCLEAR DANGER The two nuclear reactors on the Kursk are believed to be shut down, and Russian officials say no radiation leaks have occurred. But significant risks remain, both during the salvage operation and during the eventual delicate removal of the nuclear fuel...
...last nine years, the 71-year-old Hero of the Soviet Union who spent 33 years in nuclear submarines has been heading the Charity Foundation in Memory of the Komsomolets (echernov@online.ru). But Chernov today is focused on the fate of a more recent Northern Fleet casualty, the Kursk, which he believes is being covered up by the Russian authorities. He talked with TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich at his modest office in St. Petersburg...