Nuclear-powered icebreaker "Arktika" - Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker type LK-60YA (project 22220). It is the lead ship of this project [1] [2] [3] .
| "Arctic" | |
|---|---|
 September 26, 2017. | |
| Flag |  Russia |
| Class and type of vessel | LK-60YA |
| IMO Number | |
| Organization | Russian Federation |
| Operator | FSUE Atomflot of the Rosatom State Corporation |
| Manufacturer | Baltic Plant [1] , St. Petersburg |
| Construction started | November 05, 2013 |
| Launched | June 16, 2016 |
| Commissioned | 2019 year (plan) |
| Status | launched |
| Main characteristics | |
| Displacement | 33 540 t |
| Length | 173.3 m (160 m line) |
| Width | 34 m (33 m line) |
| Height | 15.2 m |
| Draft | 10.5 m / 8.55 m |
| Engines | 2 RITM 200 reactors |
| Power | 60 MW (on shafts) |
| Mover | 3 propellers |
| Speed | 22 knots for clean water |
| Autonomy of swimming | 7 years (fuel reboot) 6 months (by provision) |
| Crew | 74 people |
Content
Construction
The icebreaker was laid down on November 5, 2013 . Launched on June 16, 2016 [4] .
Reactors installed in the fall of 2016. [5] [6]
The deadline for the lead icebreaker was planned for December 2017 , but it was not met, since the Kirovsky Zavod OJSC was not able to supply turbine generators in 2015 , as anticipated by the contract. [7] The delay is due to the fact that at first the Kharkov Turbine Plant was unable to fulfill contractual obligations in connection with the Ukrainian crisis of 2014 [8] [9] , and subsequently the Krylovsky SSC delayed the supply of generators to the Kirov-Energomash plant (a subsidiary of Kirovsky factory ”) [10] . It is also indicated that these are the first such plants in the last 25 years, manufactured by the plant, and therefore large-scale production upgrades were needed [11] [12] . Both turbo generators were delivered in September 2017 and April 2018, respectively. [13]
On March 17, 2017, the Baltic Shipbuilding Plant (part of USC), the contractor for the construction of the Arctic icebreaker, together with Rosatom (the customer) sent an appeal to the government of the Russian Federation - Russia about the need to postpone the delivery of the icebreaker for a year and a half [14 ] . On July 12, 2017, the new deadline for commissioning the icebreaker was 2019 [15] [10] . On May 28, 2019, USC announced the planned transfer of the Arctic icebreaker to the customer in 2020 [16]
On June 19, 2018, in a Rosatom report from the Baltic Shipyard on the construction of icebreakers of the LK-60Y type, it was stated that the vessel was 60% ready. [17]
On May 16, 2019, the first loading of nuclear fuel into the nuclear installation of the icebreaker started [18] .
Design
Designed to overcome even ice with a thickness of 2.8-2.9 meters with a steady speed.
It is a two-draft icebreaker: with deep draft it is able to break through thick ocean ice, while with shallow ice it can work in river beds, thereby replacing two icebreakers at once: the Arctic and Taimyr classes, respectively.
Engine
The icebreaker is equipped with two nuclear power plants with RITM 200 reactors, with a thermal capacity of 175 MW each. The steam from the reactors drives two steam turbogenerators with a capacity of 36 MW each. [7] Three fixed pitch propellers are driven by electric motors.
Other information
On June 20, 2016, the godmother of the Arctic icebreaker was Chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko [19] , who broke a bottle of champagne on the side of the vessel. This happened during the launch of the icebreaker.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Named the vessel, which in 2016 will launch the shipyards of St. Petersburg
- ↑ The Arctic icebreaker for Yamal will be launched in May
- ↑ Russia will launch an icebreaker that has no analogues in the world January 9, 2016
- ↑ The most powerful nuclear-powered icebreaker “Arctic” in the world launched in St. Petersburg
- ↑ The first PHB RITM-200 loaded onto the Arctic icebreaker
- ↑ In the rhythm of the North. The world's most powerful nuclear icebreaker has a nuclear reactor
- ↑ 1 2 Kirovsky Zavod will produce turbogenerators for the nuclear icebreaker
- ↑ In Russia, 4 latest atomic icebreakers are being built right away
- ↑ The transfer of deadlines for the Arctic was explained at a turbine factory
- ↑ 1 2 Anastasia Vedeneeva . As the contractors of the Arctic icebreaker explain the deadline for delivery , Kommersant (June 12, 2017).
- ↑ Kirovsky factory will spend 400 million rubles to modernize the production of ship steam turbine plants
- ↑ A test bench for heavy-duty ship turbines was launched in St. Petersburg
- ↑ Kirov Plant completed the delivery of a steam turbine unit for the Arctic icebreaker
- ↑ USC asks to postpone the delivery of the Arctic icebreaker by a year and a half
- ↑ “Arctic” drifted
- ↑ Ekaterina Fomicheva . The St. Petersburg shipbuilder received a new multi-billion dollar order , RBC (May 28, 2019).
- ↑ Rosatom. The largest nuclear icebreaker (June 19, 2018). Date of treatment July 8, 2018.
- ↑ On the icebreaker "Arctic" began loading of nuclear fuel . RIA Novosti (20190516T1647 + 0300Z). Circulation date May 19, 2019.
- ↑ The nuclear-powered icebreaker “Arctic” was launched . Circulation date May 19, 2019.
Links
- ICE TROUSED . TASS. Date of treatment June 18, 2016.