What was the name of the first nuclear powered civilian vessel, an icebreaker?
Nuclear-powered icebreaker icebreakers, and one is a container ship with an icebreaking bow. All six nuclear-powered icebreakers of the "Arktika" class have been built at the Baltic Shipyard in St. Petersburg. "Vaigach" and "Taimyr" were built at the Helsinki New Shipyard in Finland and then brought to Russia for installation of the reactors and turbogenerators. At its launch in 1957 the icebreaker NS "Lenin" was both the world's first nuclear-powered surface ship and the first nuclear-powered civilian vessel. "Lenin" was put into ordinary operation in 1959. "Lenin" had two nuclear accidents, the first in 1965, and the second in 1967. The second
Nuclear-powered icebreaker fleet of icebreakers, but also to build new ships, and the first nuclear icebreaker of a new generation will be built by 2015. This should be an icebreaker capable of moving in rivers and seas", he said. He went on saying that the Iceberg Design Bureau in St. Petersburg would prepare the design of the icebreaker by 2009. According to the BBC the LK-60 (ЛК60Я) will be the biggest nuclear-powered icebreaker that was ever built. Vladimir Putin said in 2010, Russia builds at least three nuclear icebreakers of the new generation in the period from 2012 to 2020. Sergei Kiriyenko,