Adoption of the third newest nuclear-powered icebreaker of the 22220 Ural project is scheduled for November 2022. This was reported to socialbites.ca by Leonid Irlitsa, Deputy Managing Director of FSUE Atomflot.
“while he [ледокол] It is located in the Baltic Shipyard. Commissioning is in progress. Reactor started, checked, everything works. Now preparations are underway for the sea trials, which will be held in September,” he said.
Work on the icebreaker was carried out by the St. He added that it was audited by the Atomflot representative office in St. Petersburg.
According to Irlitsa, currently the Russian nuclear icebreaker fleet consists of 50 Years of Victory, Yamal, Taimyr and Vaigach, a unique nuclear lighter ship Sevmorput, as well as new icebreakers of the 22220 series Arktika and Siberia.
Learn more about the readiness level and ice navigation of new nuclear powered icebreakers – in an interview Leonid Irlitsa “Newspaper.Ru”.
Source: Gazeta
