Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet

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Murmansk Shipping Company

[ 05.05.2008 ]
Rosatom takeover looms for Russia’s nuclear icebreaker fleet
Russia’s new state nuclear corporation Rosatom will be taking over management of Russia’s nuclear icebreaker fleet in August in a move that local authorities say is being made too quickly and has not been thoroughly thought through, Russian media reports say.
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msco.ru

[ 07.08.2007 ]
Russia to drill Arctic oil with nuclear icebreaker
NEW YORK-In another grand Russian gesture toward securing oil deposits under the Arctic seabed, the Murmansk Shipping Company has announced it will outfit one of its nuclear powered icebreakers to become the world’s first atomic powered oil drilling vessel, company officials said this week.
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Nils Bøhmer

[ 12.10.2006 ]
Long-term storage facility for SNF from nuclear icebreakers opens at Atomflot in Murmansk
The Murmansk Region has accumulated a large amount of spent nuclear fuel from nuclear icebreakers. The spent nuclear fuel (SNF) is being stored in floating technical bases – three highly radioactive nuclear service ships called the Lotta, the Imandra, and the Lepse – as neither regional authorities nor the country as a whole have suitable storage facilies.
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NEWS
[ 26.10.2007 ]
Nuclear icebreakers can be transferred to Rosatom

Russian nuclear icebreakers’ fleet can be transferred to the new state corporation “Rosatom”.

[ 21.05.2007 ]
Rosatom plans to build floating NPP by 2012

Head of the Russian Atomic Energy Agency (Rosatom) Sergey Kiriyenko said that Rosatom might build a new floating nuclear power plant by the time of the APEC summit in 2012.

[ 29.03.2007 ]
Russian government owes Baltic Plant about $35m for nuclear icebreaker construction

Alexander Chistov, general director of the Baltic Plant, which completed the construction of the nuclear-powered icebreaker “50 Years of Victory”, said to the journalists that the government owed the company from $30m to $35m for the project.

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