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

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 […]

December 19, 2018 Arctic, Arctic Transport and Shipping, Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet

Legislation grants Rosatom control of the Russian Arctic

Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom, has been granted control over the Arctic Northern Sea Route, advancing its aim of becoming the […]

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October 31, 2018 Arctic, Nuclear Russia, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet

Shipbuilder cries foul over plans to construct nuclear mega-icebreaker in Russia’s Far East

The Leader, a Russian nuclear icebreaker that has existed in mythical blueprint since 2015, has become a political dispute as shipbuilders […]

September 10, 2018 Arctic, Nuclear Russia, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet

One of Russia’s new nuclear icebreakers facing delays

Another of Russia’s new-line nuclear icebreakers is running afoul of construction deadlines in a delay that will likely force older ones […]

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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.