Russia launches world’s largest and most powerful icebreaker
JUN 20, 2016
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.029909
NPR : On 16 June Russia launched the Arktika, a 173 m icebreaker powered by two nuclear reactors. Designed to break through ice up to 4 m thick, the Arktika is part of Russia’s growing Arctic naval development, which includes building new bases in the Arctic Circle and modernizing nuclear submarines. Russia is the only country with nuclear-powered icebreakers. It already has more icebreakers—over two dozen—than all other nations combined.
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