Arktika (2016 icebreaker)
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| Name: | Arktika (Арктика - Arctic) |
| Operator: | Rosatomflot, Rosatom |
| Builder: | Baltic Shipyard, Saint Petersburg |
| Laid down: | 5 November 2013 |
| Launched: | 16 June 2016 |
| In service: | May 2019 (planned) |
| Identification: | IMO number: 9694725 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | LK-60Ya-class icebreaker |
| Displacement: | 33,540 tonnes |
| Length: | 173.3 m (569 ft) |
| Beam: | 34 m (112 ft) |
| Height: | 15.2 m (50 ft) |
| Draught: | 10.5 m (34 ft) |
| Propulsion: | Nuclear-turbo-electric; twin turbine-generators; three shafts 81,000 hp (60,000 kW) (combined) |
| Speed: | 22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph) |
| Crew: | 74 |
NS Arktika (Russian: Арктика) is a nuclear-powered icebreaker of the Russian LK-60Ya class icebreakers.
Construction of the ship began in the Baltic Shipyard (Baltiysky Zavod), a subsidiary of USC (United Shipbuilding Corporation), in St. Petersburg on 5 November 2013 and the ship was launched on 16 June 2016. For further information on the ship's design, construction and propulsion system, see LK-60Ya class icebreaker.
Designed for 40 years of reactor life, Arktika will require refuelling every seven years with less than 20% uranium-235 enriched fuel. The new icebreaker is able to navigate through ice up to almost three meters thick. The cost of one RITM-200 reactor is 8 billion rubles (US$0.12 billion).
On 2 September 2016, Baltic Shipyard installed the first RITM-200 nuclear reactor steam generator and twenty days later completed the installation of the second RITM-200 nuclear reactor. Each reactor has a 175 MW thermal capacity.
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