Russia's latest nuclear-powered icebreaker completed Aiming to take the lead in Arctic development September 23, 7:12
Russia, which is developing the Arctic region, has completed a new state-of-the-art nuclear-powered icebreaker, and it seems that the United States and China want to take the initiative in the development of the Arctic region, which is also of interest.
The nuclear-powered icebreaker "Arktika" completed at the shipyard in St. Petersburg, Russia's second largest city, is 173 meters long and 34 meters wide, equipped with two small nuclear reactors as a power source, and has a maximum thickness of 3 meters of ice. You can sail while breaking.
The world's only Russian state-owned company "Atomfloat" that operates a nuclear-powered icebreaker spent more than 50 billion yen in Japanese yen, and it became the operation base of the nuclear-powered icebreaker from St. Petersburg on the 22nd. Departed for the Arctic town of Murmansk.
Due to the effects of global warming, the ice in the Arctic Ocean has become thinner and easier to navigate, so Russia has set the national goal of developing energy resources in the Arctic Circle and expanding the use of the Arctic Ocean route, and has set a new generation of nuclear icebreaking. We have been building "Arctica" as a ship.
The United States, China, and India are also keenly interested in the development of the Arctic region, and Russia aims to take the lead in the future conflict of interests by operating a high-performance nuclear-powered icebreaker. You can see it.