Метка: Arctic

The Northern Sea Route perspectives and hurdles
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The Northern Sea Route perspectives and hurdles

At the end of December 2019 Dmitry Medvedev’s government presented Rosatom with a really nice holiday gift as the “Northern Sea Route development plan for the time period until 2035” was approved. One year before Russian law 525-ФЗ was enacted on December 27, 2018 paving the way for the State Atomic Energy Corporation “Rosatom” to receive commission as the...

A peaceful atom in the Arctic ice
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A peaceful atom in the Arctic ice

On December 3, 2019, Russia celebrated the 60th anniversary of its nuclear-powered icebreaker fleet. On this day in 1959, the Leningrad Admiralty shipyard and the Gorky machine-building plant no.92, the main executioners, delivered Lenin, the first nuclear-powered icebreaker to its commissioner, the Ministry of the Navy. Judging by the level of technology involved, the concentration...