Nuclear icebreaker-leader of 110 MWt to be designed in Russia
FSUE Krylov State Research Center commences the designing of 110-MWt icebreaker-leader which is to become the largest icebreaker in the world and to ensure regular shipping along the Northern Sea Route, IAA PortNews journalist cites Evgeny Appolonov, Deputy Director General of FSUE Krylov State Research Center as saying at RAO/CIS Offshore 2013.
According to him, the icebreaker will probably feature a multihulled structure and make a broad canal beyond the possibilities of the existing icebreakers.
In late May Atomflot Director General Vyacheslav Ruksha said that no decision on state financing of nuclear icebreakers construction had been made by RF Ministry of Finance due to the requirement to attract non-state financing.
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. Rosatom is the state customer and investor of the contract while Atomflot FSUE is the construction customer.
Under the contract, the icebreaker of the new generation is to be built by the end of 2017. According to the schedule approved, the keel-laying ceremony is to be held in November 2013, launching – in November 2015. The icebreaker was designed at CDB Iceberg in 2009. A new type of integrated reactor system RITM-200 will be used in the vessel’s nuclear power plant.
