Russia to build new-generation nuclear icebreaker by 2015

ST. PETERSBURG. April 21. KAZINFORM Russia is planning to complete the construction of a third-generation nuclear-powered icebreaker by 2015, the head of the state nuclear corporation Rosatom said on Tuesday; Kazinform refers to RIA Novosti.
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Responsibility for Russia's nuclear icebreaker fleet was handed over to Rosatom from the Murmansk Shipping Company on August 27, 2008. "A federal program has allocated 17 billion rubles [$500 mln] for the development of a new-generation icebreaker," Sergei Kiriyenko said. Kiriyenko said the Iceberg Design Bureau in St. Petersburg would prepare the design of the icebreaker by 2010. "This should be a double-hull icebreaker capable of moving in rivers and seas," he said. The Russian nuclear chief also said the ship would be most likely built at the Baltiysky Zavod shipyard in St. Petersburg. Russia has been recently taking steps to revive the country's nuclear icebreaker fleet to ensure a continuing presence in the Arctic; Kazinform cites RIA Novosti. See www.en.rian.ru for full version
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