What was the world's first atomic-powered ship called?
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
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