(30 Aug 2003) SHOTLIST
Moscow - 30 August 2003
1. Wide shot exterior Russian Defence Ministry
2. Wide shot entrance to the defence ministry with two guards
3. Wide shot view and zoom in Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov talking with Viktor Kravchenko, Chief of Staff of the Russian Navy. Ivanov is saying "This morning I reported the accident to the president and he approved of my decision to send into the area the of the accident the commander of the navy."
4. Closeup shot Kravchenko's hand pointing at the map of the area
5. Wide shot Ivanov and Kravchenko talking
6. Cutaway cameramen
Moscow - 30 August 2003
7. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Viktor Kravchenko, Chief of Staff, Russian Navy
"Options to raise the submarine are being reviewed now. We will raise it by whatever means and have it dismantled after that."
8. Wide shot end of the press conference
PLEASE NOTE: Footage shows various of the bases where the Northern Fleet is based - submarines in view believed to be similar to the K-159, but APTN cannot confirm
File, Naval Base near Murmansk, Northern Russia - 1995
9. Wide shot of the harbour with nuclear submarines
10. Submarine
11. Russian naval flag
File - Severomosk Base, Northern Russia - 1996
12. Various wide shots of submarines
Moscow - August 30, 2003
13. Wide shot interior Greenpeace office in Moscow
14. Closeup computer screen with images K-159 submarine
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Vladimir Tchouprov, Greenpeace Nuclear Expert
"If the water could get into the spent nuclear fuel and the leaking of radionuclides would start into the environment so then we could say about the pollution of a big area, lets say maybe, from dozens to hundreds of kilometres around the submarine."
File - Vladivostok, Zvezda Nuclear Submarine Utilisation Plant -March 2003
16. Wide shot harbour
17. Mid shot decommissioned nuclear submarine in scrapyard
18. Wide shot a crane carrying submarine pieces
19. Wide shot conveyer with submarine pieces
STORYLINE
A Russian nuclear-powered K-159 submarine sank in a fierce late summer storm in the Barents Sea on Saturday morning, killing at least two of the 10-member crew, the Defence Ministry said.
One sailor was rescued, the bodies of two dead crew members were found and the fate of seven others was unknown, the ministry added.
The K-159 sank about 0400 local time (0000 GMT) in waters 170 metres (560 feet) deep after four pontoons attached for the towing operation were ripped of the sub during a battering storm.
The sub's nuclear reactor was shut down at the time the vessel sank.
No weapons were aboard the 40-year-old submarine, which belonged to the Northern Fleet which has bases at Severomosk and Murmansk in northern Russia.
But although the navy insisted that the K-159's nuclear reactors posed no environmental hazard, the Greenpeace environmental organisation warned of a possible radiation leak that could contaminate the busy fishing area.
The condition of Russia's aging nuclear submarine fleet has long raised international concern.
On 12 August 2000, an explosion shook the Kursk nuclear submarine during exercises, sending the vessel to the Barents Sea floor.
All 118 men on board were killed in that tragedy, which shed light on the troubles of the Russian navy in the post-Soviet era.
Russian officials said it would cost an estimated three point nine (B) billion US dollars to scrap over 100 mothballed Russian nuclear submarines that await destruction.
Yet last year, Moscow budgeted just 70 (M) million dollars for improving nuclear safety in the country as a whole.
Find out more about AP Archive: [ Ссылка ]
Twitter: [ Ссылка ]
Facebook: [ Ссылка ]
Instagram: [ Ссылка ]
You can license this story through AP Archive: [ Ссылка ]
