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Ural (ship)
''Ural'' may refer to the following vessels: * , a steamship built in Germany in 1890, sold to Russia in 1904, and sunk by the Japanese in 1905 * , Soviet command and control ship launched in 1983 and decommissioned in 2001 * , a Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker launched in 2019 {{DISPLAYTITLE:''Ural'' (ship) Ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuclear-powered Icebreaker
A nuclear-powered icebreaker is an icebreaker with an Nuclear marine propulsion, onboard nuclear power plant that produces power for the vessel's propulsion system. Although more expensive to operate, nuclear-powered icebreakers provide a number of advantages over their diesel-powered counterparts, especially along the Northern Sea Route where diesel-powered icebreaker operations are challenging due to the heavy power demand associated with icebreaking, limited refueling infrastructure along the Siberian coast, and the endurance required. , Russia is the only country that builds and operates nuclear-powered icebreakers, having built a number of such vessels to aid shipping along the Northern Sea Route and Russian arctic outposts since the Soviet era. History of nuclear-powered icebreakers The first nuclear icebreaker was the Soviet vessel ''Lenin (1957 icebreaker), Lenin'', which was launched in 1957 as the world’s first nuclear-powered surface vessel and the first civilian-o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
