Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet

Russia is the only nation using civilian nuclear icebreakers. This section explores the breadth of environmental questions that come with this practice, including the accrual of spent nuclear fuel and its processing, and questions of the icebreakers’ deployment, dismantlement and replacement.

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Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet

August 7, 2019 Arctic, Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet

Russia to build two more nuclear icebreakers

Russia has said it will build two new nuclear icebreakers in a bid to make a rapidly melting trade route through the Arctic accessible to […]

May 28, 2019 Arctic, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet

Russia launches new nuclear icebreaker in bid for Arctic dominance

Russia launched a nuclear icebreaker on Saturday as part of an ambitious program to renew and expand its fleet of ice-class vessels in order […]

May 20, 2019 Arctic, Nuclear issues, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet

Russia dismantles one of it nuclear icebreaking legends

Officials at the Nerpa shipyard near Murmansk have said they plan to offload the reactor of the retired Arktika nuclear icebreaker by […]

January 23, 2019 Arctic, Arctic Transport and Shipping, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet

Bellona’s Arctic Frontiers event offers safe fuels for Arctic shipping expansion

The Arctic’s icecap is shrinking 12 percent faster than it was a decade ago, and nearly all of its older and thicker ice is already gone. […]

January 21, 2019 Arctic, Arctic Transport and Shipping, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet

Russian Ministers try nervously to fulfill Putin’s Arctic shipping goals

Ever since Russian President Vladimir Putin decreed last year that shipping traffic through the Arctic’s Northern Sea Route must increase […]

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Sigurd Enge

Manager Shipping, Marine and Arctic Issues
sigurd@bellona.no
+47 970 87 533

Sigurd Enge is one of the most experienced advisers at Bellona, as he joined the foundation in 1988. He works as adviser on marine safety and oil spill protection. He is the skipper of M/S Kallinika and he is Head of the Bellona Environmental Patrol. Sigurd has a unique experience working on a broad variety of subjects during his 25 years with the foundation, including fisheries, oil and fish farming. He has also been head of IT and technical support, as well as leading actions involving civil disobedience.