Sibir (nuclear icebreaker)
Nuclear icebreaker Sibir 1987
Russian Maritime Register of Shipping
IMO no. 7604491
The nuclear icebreaker Sibir (Russian Сибирь, Siberia ' ) is a Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker Arktika the class, which was designed for the -icing in the northern polar region.
The ship is equipped with two OK - 900A nuclear reactors, each of which provide a thermal output of 171 MW. The reactors were in operation from 1977 to 1992. The reactors power two steam turbines to turn six generators are connected. By means of sensors, which were distributed throughout the ship, the radioactivity was always controlled.
The nuclear-powered icebreaker needed in the May / June 1978, only 18 days for the route from Murmansk to the Bering Strait. In 1987, the Sibir took one in the history of Arctic seafaring unique journey to date. Only members of the Russian research station North Pole -27 were taken from a drifting ice floe, then opened the station North Pole -29 and reached the port of the North Pole for research purposes.
The Sibir since 1993 has been out of operation. All fuel elements were removed.