Nuclear-powered icebreaker

A nuclear-powered icebreaker is a ship with the suitability as an icebreaker, which is powered by a nuclear reactor.

History

The world's first nuclear-powered icebreaker Lenin was on December 5, 1957 in the Soviet Union from the stack. He was used primarily as a transport for transporting goods, for research purposes, to supply the inhabitants of northern Siberia and to keep clear of the Northeast Passage.

With the Soviet nuclear icebreaker Arktika named the 2nd generation was reached on August 17, 1977 for the first time the geographic North Pole of the Earth, which was previously managed only with submarines. 1990, foreign tourists with the nuclear-powered icebreaker Rossiya were driven to the North Pole for the first time. The nuclear-powered icebreaker Yamal Sovetskiy Soyuz and go in recent times regularly about five times a year with tourists to the North Pole.

The nuclear-powered icebreaker Lenin is reconstructed at the time and turned into a museum, information center and business center; in the first part of the museum " for the development of the Arctic and the northern sea route " was opened in May 2009.

In addition to the icebreakers of the Arktika class for the lake, the river icebreakers Taymyr Taymyr class Waigatsch and were built.

As the last of the second generation icebreaker 50 Let Pobedy the ship ( 50th Anniversary of Victory) was put into service on 2 April 2007. He ran in 1993 but from the stack.

Currently Russia has six nuclear-powered icebreaker, the latest is the 50 Let Pobedy with 75,000 hp and up to 48 mm thick bow. Until 2017Vorlage: Future / In 3 years, another nuclear-powered icebreaker is to be added for the Arctic fleet.