In St. Petersburg launched the most powerful icebreaker in the world
At the Baltic shipyard in St. Petersburg launched housing the world’s most powerful nuclear-powered icebreaker “Siberia” of project 22220. About it reports “RIA Novosti”.
The ceremony was attended by the presidential envoy in the northwestern Federal district, Nikolai Tsukanov, General Director of Rosatom Alexey Likhachev and President of the United shipbuilding Corporation (USC) Alexey Rakhmanov and Chairman of the accounting chamber Tatyana Golikova. She broke the champagne bottle on the hull of the icebreaker.
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Earlier it was reported that in late August the company “OKBM Afrikantov”, reported on the status of nuclear power plants for “Siberia”. The vessel will be equipped with two reactor RITM-200. Each has the capacity of 55 MW. The refueling should be conducted every 7-10 years. The lifetime of the reactors is 40 years.
From the head of the atomic icebreaker new generation today, we went to their mass production. Deadline: Arctic-19, Siberia-20, Ural-21 pic.twitter.com/dNHCm49APa
— Dmitry Rogozin (@Rogozin) September 22, 2017
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Icebreaker “Siberia” is the serial ship of the project 22220. It was founded in may of 2015. After launching the completion will be carried out, which should be completed in 2020. Its displacement is 33 540 tons, length — 173.3 m, width — 34 m. the Vessel shall carry a crew of 74 people. It can reach speeds of 22 knots in clean water. The icebreaker is designed to overcome as ocean and river ice thickness up to 2.9 m. it Thus combines the qualities of two classes of such vessels of river and sea.
The lead ship of the project — launched in 2016, the icebreaker “Arktika” — should enter service in June 2019. These terms for the courts project was established in July by President Vladimir Putin after the previously installed were broken. The responsibility may be incurred by Rosatom and USC. The third ship, the icebreaker “Ural” — laid in July 2016 and, under the new plans, will be in operation in 2022.