Due to the conflict with Ukraine, Putin pushed back the construction of a Russian nuclear icebreaker by two years.
Due to the conflict with Ukraine, which curtailed technical cooperation with the Russian Federation for political reasons, Russian President Vladimir Putin moved the construction deadlines for the lead nuclear icebreaker LK-60Ya “Arktika” from 2017 to 2019.
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The Russian publication Kommersant reported this today, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Turbines have become the key problem of Arktika. They were supposed to be tested by the Ukrainian Kharkov Turbine Plant, but after 2014 the stand had to be built at KEM. There are no serious technical difficulties: the first turbine is being tested at the KEM stand, the second should be tested by October,” the newspaper writes.
The nuclear-powered icebreakers Taimyr and Vaygach are currently in operation; the service life of their nuclear installations is being extended, which cannot happen indefinitely.
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