In the harshest regions of our planet, where frozen oceans stretch endlessly and temperatures plummet below zero, only a rare ...

So do we. Let's nerd out over them together. Arktika is the first of a new class of nuclear-powered icebreakers. Construction began at the Baltic Shipyards in St. Petersburg in 2012 with a ...

The need for construction of specialized ships to clear the path in the ice appeared in the mid-18th century. The first ...

St. Petersburg — Russia's new flagship nuclear-powered icebreaker, said to be the world's largest and most powerful, left a shipyard on Tuesday headed for the Arctic. The massive ship is the ...

China is preparing to start bidding on a nuclear powered icebreaker, the first nuclear powered surface ship in the country’s history. An icebreaker powered by nuclear energy would give Beijing ...

Finally, the new subsidiary has filed a patent titled simply “A nuclear-powered icebreaker,” which shows a rendering of the basic design of an icebreaker, designed with one fixed centerline ...

The commercial shipping industry is chasing a novel carbon-free propulsion technology as it pursues a lofty climate goal: ...

Rosatom's first established a sub-branch, the Rusatom Cargo, for Arctic container shipping in 2019, the company's newspaper ...

Languages; English. You can get in touch with Hannah by emailing [email protected] Russia has failed to complete tests on its newest nuclear-powered icebreaker—the largest of its kind in ...

Agence France-Presse (AFP) noted the news of the nuclear-powered icebreaker, which carves through ice to create better passage routes for cargo ships, comes as Moscow looks to open up its ...

But today, only the Soviet-era Sevmorput is still in active duty as part of Rosatom’s Atomflot that also includes nuclear powered icebreakers. After having been launched in 1986, Sevmorput is ...

The Yamal Krechet is a general cargo ship which was built in 1999. The icebreaker is powered by two OK-900A nuclear reactors, each producing 171 MW of thermal power. The reactors supply steam to ...