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Russia's Nuclear-powered icebreaker Arktika resumes sea trials
The lead nuclear icebreaker “Arktika”, project 22220 (LK-60Ya), built at JSC Baltic Shipyard (part of JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation) for FSUE Atomflot, starts the final stage of sea trials. Picture from, 06.23.2020 by United Shipbuilding Corporation.

Russia’s Nuclear-powered icebreaker Arktika resumes sea trials

The Arktika lead nuclear icebreaker of project 22220 sailed out from Baltic Shipyard for the final stage of sea trials, the enterprise said.

Xavier Vavasseur 25 Jun 2020

By TASS Russian news agency

The trial team of the shipyard and subcontractors will check the mechanisms and equipment for three weeks in the Gulf of Finland. They will test the steam turbine, electric propulsion, shafts, anchors and steerage. Speed and maneuvering characteristics, general systems and automatics will be checked. The running trials will also test navigation and communication systems, as well as the helicopter complex.

“Innovative solutions which have never been used in a nuclear-powered vessel were implemented in the lead nuclear icebreaker. The Arktika is equipped with electric alternating-current propulsion with asynchronous electric motors. The icebreaker has high-voltage generators and a steam unit designed specifically for it. Practically all equipment is Russian-made. The running trials will test interaction of the electric motor with the nuclear power plant and the main turbo generators. We have entered the final stage of trials. The icebreaker will be handed over to the customer after return to the Baltic Shipyard. It is to become operational in 2020,”


Atomflot CEO Mustafa Kashka
Arctic Icebreaker Russia TASS 2020-06-25
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Posted by : Xavier Vavasseur
Xavier is based in Paris, France. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems and a Master of Business Administration from Florida Institute of Technology (FIT). Xavier has been covering naval defense topics for nearly a decade.

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