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

May 1, 2020 Arctic, Nuclear Russia, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet

Russian officials remotely ink contract to build biggest nuclear icebreaker ever

Murmansk’s nuclear icebreaker port Atomflot has inked a deal with a Vladivostok shipyard to construct the Leader, a vessel of massive […]

April 17, 2020 Arctic, Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet

Russia’s new Arktika nuclear icebreaker delayed for at least a year

A defective electric engine aboard Russia’s newest nuclear icebreaker has set off a cascade of difficulties that will postpone its […]

February 17, 2020 Arctic, Nuclear Russia, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet

Russian icebreaker delivery delayed by electrical failure

A motor breakdown during sea trials aboard the Arktika, one of the world’s biggest nuclear icebreakers, has thrown into doubt that the […]

January 27, 2020 Arctic, Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet

Russian government bankrolls Leader nuclear icebreaker project

The Russian government has allocated $2 billion to build a goliath high-tech nuclear icebreaker it claims will keep the Arctic ice free for […]

December 13, 2019 Arctic, Nuclear Russia, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet

Russia’s largest icebreaker starts sea trials

The Arktika nuclear icebreaker – currently billed as the largest in the world – has begun sea trials near the Baltic Shipyard in St […]

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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.