New Russian Nuclear Icebreaker to be commissioned in 2017

- Russia will serially build its nuclear sea fleet, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozon stated at the Tekhnoprom forum in Novosibirsk yesterday.

This is reported by the news agency TASS, owned by the government of Russia.

- In 2017, 2019 and 2020 we plan to commission 3 nuclear icebreakers with the capacity of up to 60 MW. The Iceberg Design Bureau is expected to create a powerful nuclear icebreaker with the capacity of up to 130 MW, which will secure ice escort. The icebreaker will be more than 50 metres wide, Rogozin said.

– We need to put the first LK-60Ya model universal nuclear icebreaker into operation no later than the end of 2017, Rosatomflot Director General Vyacheslav Ruksha said in August.