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  2. Nuclear-powered icebreaker - Wikipedia

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    Nuclear icebreaker Yamal, 2015. A nuclear-powered icebreaker is an icebreaker with an onboard nuclear power plant that produces power for the vessel's propulsion system. . Although more expensive to operate, nuclear-powered icebreakers provide a number of advantages over their diesel-powered counterparts, especially along the Northern Sea Route where diesel-powered icebreaker operations are ...

  3. Project 22220 icebreaker - Wikipedia

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    Project 22220, also known through the Russian type size series designation LK-60Ya, [note 1] is a series of Russian nuclear-powered icebreakers.The lead ship of the class, Arktika, was delivered in 2020 and surpassed the preceding Soviet-built series of nuclear-powered icebreakers as the largest and most powerful icebreaker in the world.

  4. Arktika-class icebreaker - Wikipedia

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    The Arktika class is a Russian (formerly Soviet) class of nuclear-powered icebreakers.Also known by their Russian designations Project 10520 (first two ships) and Project 10521 (from third ship onwards), they were the world's largest and most powerful icebreakers until the 2016 launch of the first Project 22220 icebreaker, also named Arktika.

  5. List of icebreakers - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of icebreakers and other special icebreaking vessels (except cargo ships and tankers) ... Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker Yamal. Lenin (1959–1989; ...

  6. Russia's nuclear icebreaker on its Arctic voyage - AOL

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    Introducing: the nuclear-powered icebreaker Courtesy: Baltic Shipyard Known as the "Arktika" Russia says it is the world's largest and most powerful icebreaker It set off on a two-week journey to ...

  7. Icebreaker - Wikipedia

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    A Soviet stamp of Lenin, the world's first nuclear-powered icebreaker. The second Soviet nuclear icebreaker was NS Arktika, the lead ship of the Arktika class. In service since 1975, she was the first surface ship to reach the North Pole, on August 17, 1977. Several nuclear-powered icebreakers were also built outside the Soviet Union.

  8. Lenin (1957 icebreaker) - Wikipedia

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    Lenin (Russian: Ленин) is a Soviet nuclear-powered icebreaker, the first nuclear-powered icebreaker in the world. Launched in 1957, it is both the world's first nuclear-powered surface ship [2] and the first nuclear-powered civilian vessel. Lenin entered operation in 1959 and worked clearing sea routes for cargo ships along Russia's ...

  9. Project 10510 icebreaker - Wikipedia

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    The result, Project 10510, was a nuclear-powered icebreaker design intended for escorting cargo ships and tankers with a beam of 50 metres (160 ft) and deadweight tonnage of 100,000 tonnes year-round along the entire Northern Sea Route. With a propulsion power of 120 megawatts, the icebreaker would be capable of maintaining an average escort ...