Posted on 04/21/2009 7:32:54 AM PDT by pobeda1945
ST. PETERSBURG, April 21 (RIA Novosti) - Russia is planning to complete the construction of a third-generation nuclear-powered icebreaker by 2015, the head of the state nuclear corporation Rosatom said on Tuesday.
Responsibility for Russia's nuclear icebreaker fleet was handed over to Rosatom from the Murmansk Shipping Company on August 27, 2008.
"A federal program has allocated 17 billion rubles [$500 mln] for the development of a new-generation icebreaker," Sergei Kiriyenko said.
Kiriyenko said the Iceberg Design Bureau in St. Petersburg would prepare the design of the icebreaker by 2010. "This should be a double-hull icebreaker capable of moving in rivers and seas," he said.
The Russian nuclear chief also said the ship would be most likely built at the Baltiysky Zavod shipyard in St. Petersburg.
Russia has been recently taking steps to revive the country's nuclear icebreaker fleet to ensure a continuing presence in the Arctic.
High Arctic territories, seen as the key to huge untapped natural resources, have increasingly been at the center of mounting disputes between the United States, Russia, Canada, Norway, and Denmark in recent years as rising temperatures lead to a reduction in sea ice.
Russia is due to submit to the UN new data on the boundaries of its continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean.
President Dmitry Medvedev said in September at a Russian Security Council session that the Arctic shelf was a guarantee of Russia's energy security and that the Arctic should become a resource base for Russia this century, adding that "about 20% of Russia's GDP and 22% of Russian exports are produced" in the area.
Russia has undertaken two Arctic expeditions - to the Mendeleyev underwater chain in 2005 and to the Lomonosov ridge in the summer of 2007 - to support its territorial claims in the region.
No point. In 2015 there will be no ice to break.
Duh, global warming will melt all the ice.....
We ought to have been building ships with part of those trillions of alleged stimulus dollars... and jet fighters, too, and where does the money go... to ACORN! How anyone can set still after that is unbelievable!
beat ya...
;^P
Better alert our rescue teams.
Ivan’s building another ‘Stinker of A Sinker’.
Well they needed a new icebreaker. The old one is becoming a hotel.
“”The world’s first nuclear powered icebreaker, the “Lenin”, will be turned into a museum and luxury hotel in Murmansk. The rebuilding is supposed to be finished already this summer.
Plans for the rebuilding were presented at a tourist fair in Moscow recently. The icebreaker is going to be placed by the Murmansk Sea Port, practically in the center of Murmansk.””
The Lenin had not just one, but two significant nuke disasters. After the second one the entire nuke reactor and associated plumbing had to be cut out of the ship and replaced.
Ivan’s building another ‘Stinker of A Sinker’.
You may want to rethink that statement....Russia, has a N icebreaker that can sail to the North Pole, cruise around a couple times, and then head home...they have had that capability for some time...
Well I’ll be danged.... you sure did! lol
Russia is out to militarize and control the Arctic. If we believe otherwise, it is because we’re as dumb as clams.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2240667/posts - here is more on this
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