Atomflot expects to have two more 60 MW icebreakers by 2022
Atomflot plans to commission into service the second and third nuclear-powered icebreakers of capacity of 60 MW by 2022, the Atomflot’s head said.
The federal company’s General Director Vyacheslav Ruksha in an interview with reporters on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Forum "The Arctic. Present and Future" said that the two newbuilds will be sister ships of the icebreakers series ordered at Baltic Shipyard.
The icebreakers order will be placed either in one package or separately with the Russian shipyard.
On November 1, 2012 St. Petersburg-based Baltic Shipyard held a steel-cutting ceremony for a new generation nuclear-powered 60MW icebreaker of Project 22220. On August 23 2012, Rosatom Corporation’s Atomflot and Baltic Shipyard (Baltiysky Zavod-Shipbuilding) signed a contract for the construction of the RS class icebreaker of new generation of Project 22220. The icebreaker was designed at CDB Iceberg in 2009.
The LK-60 icebreaker will be the largest and most powerful icebreaker in the world. Ship’s main characteristics: length overall - 173.3 m, beam molded - 34 meters, draft at DWL - 10.5 m, minimum loaded draft - 8.55 m, displacement - 33.54 tons. The new generation double-reactor plant "RHYTHM 200" designed by Rosatom’s "OKBM" has reactors of thermal capacity of 170 MW each - more than that of the plants used in modern nuclear icebreakers (140-150 MW).
The icebreaker 8 class ship will be able to sail in the 3-meter-thick ice. The LK-60 icebreaker features advanced double-draft capability, which makes it suitable for operations both in the Arctic waters, and in the mouths of the northern rivers. The icebreaker will be operating in the western region of the Arctic, the Barents, Pechora and Kara Seas and in shallow waters of the mouth of the Yenisei and the Ob Bay.
Under the turn-key contract worth RUB 36.959 billion, Baltic Shipyard is to execute the order by December 30, 2017 and dock the newbuilding at the berth of FSUE Atomflot in Murmansk. Keel-laying was scheduled for November 2013, launching ceremony - for November 2015. The vessel’s construction will be supervised by RS.
