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Russia's Iceberg Design Bureau Developing Several Nuclear-Powered Icebreakers - TASS.
| 2015
Concept image of icebreaker project 22220 (LC-60YA) (Picutre: Soliday / JSC «OKBM") |
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Iceberg also is designing the world’s most capable
Project 1-510 nuclear-powered icebreaker designated as Ledokol-Lider (Icebreaker
Leader). According to Ryzhkov, "the icebreaker’s power is 120MW
and maximum icebreaking capability is 4.3 m, and when ice is 2 m thick,
the ship can lead convoys at over 11 knots, thus ensuring the cost-effective
passage via the Northern Sea Route." Owing to the Leader, the Northern
Sea Route may turn into a continuously operational thoroughfare. Convoys
will be able to pass on schedule irrespective of weather and ice. The
leading icebreaker will be indispensable for the transporting of hydrocarbons
from the oil and gas fields in Yamal to Asia Pacific customers.
The blueprint design of the icebreaker has been devised in cooperation with the Krylov State Research Center and tests have been conducted in an ice model basin. The engineering design is expected to be worked out between 2016 and 2019, with the ship to be delivered by 2024. Another icebreaker class being designed by Iceberg is the 40MW Project 10570 multirole offshore nuclear-powered icebreaker. Its design embodies the standardized basic platform concept, and a number of variants featuring identical layouts, hulls, power plants, propulsion/steering units, Dynpos-2 dynamic positioning systems, etc. have been looked into. The concept allows developing icebreakers capable of a wide range of offshore tasks in the Arctic based on commonized design solutions, which will allow a design and construction cost reduction. The commonized platform can spawn a number of icebreaker derivatives, e.g. a multirole shallow-draught nuclear-powered icebreaker, resupply icebreaker, resupply icebreaker capable of towing and anchor handling, underwater oil and gas production facility maintenance and repair icebreaker, hydrocarbon well stimulation icebreaker and hydrocarbon exploration seismic survey icebreaker. A particular outfit of each of the variants can be specified in greater detail at the customer’s request. "The Krylov center and we are going to start working on the detail design of the icebreaker in the near future," Iceberg’s head said. Project 22220 Nuclear-powered Icebrakers are set to become the largest and most powerful icebreakers in the world. The length will be 173.3 meters with a width of 34 meters and draft of 10.5 meters. Projected tonnage is 33,540 tons. It will be fitted with two RITM-200 pressurized water reactors for a capacity of 175 MW. © Copyright 2015 TASS. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. |
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