It remains unclear whether reactors will be fuelled before being towed around Scandinavia
Rosatom is now installing two RITM-200 reactors aboard what will become Russia’s second floating nuclear power plant. The arrival of
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Baltic Shipyard
Here comes Yakutia, Russia’s newest nuclear icebreaker
The flag-raising ceremony happened at the Baltic Shipyard in St. Petersburg on December 28. It took four and a half
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Nuclear-powered icebreakers bring record loss for shipyard
Construction of the two icebreakers “Sibir” and “Ural” were unprofitable, the Baltic Shipyard says as its 2023 financial report shows
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Russia’s Rosatomflot files lawsuits against shipyard as world’s most powerful icebreakers are notoriously delayed
Few details on the content of the lawsuits are made public, but Rosatomflot, the federal enterprise operating and maintaining the
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Russian floating nuclear power plant to be towed through Arctic ice
The world’s first ever installation of its kind will be towed several thousand kilometers through Arctic ice before it reaches
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