Russians building largest nuclear icebreaker - November 24, 2013

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Vol. 18, No. 47

Week of November 24, 2013

Russians building largest nuclear icebreaker

Construction has started in a St. Petersburg shipyard of what will be the world’s largest and most powerful nuclear-powered icebreaker, according to a report in the Barents Observer. The new Russian vessel, 173 meters in length and to be constructed at a cost of about 1.1 billion euros, will be powered by two nuclear reactors and will be ready for operations in 2017, the Barents Observer said.

During a ceremony on Nov.5 celebrating the start of construction of the vessel, Vyacheslav Ruksha, the general director of Atomflot, the Russian Federation’s nuclear power corporation, said that the new icebreaker would be capable of keeping Russia’s Northern Sea Route open to shipping year round, according to a report on Atomflot’s website. Russia has been promoting its Northern Sea Route, the route that traverses the edge of the Arctic Ocean around the country’s northern coast, as a means whereby commercial shipping can cut the transit time between Europe and East Asia.

Russia has announced a tender for the construction of two more icebreakers of the same type, the Barents Observer said.

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