
‘The international community must boycott the Russian nuclear industry’
“The Russian nuclear company Rosatom is not just another energy company. It is a state within the state, and a political instrument for the Kremlin. ...
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Publish date: February 16, 2006
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The Murmansk Shipping Company is working intencely on prolongation of the icebreakers reactors lifetime up to 30 years. Nuclear icebreaker Arktika has undergone such an overhaul. The same overhaul will be completed at the nuclear icebreaker Rossia, which is back in service in 2007. Another brand new nuclear icebreaker 50 years of Victory is to enter service in 2006. The Murmansk Sea Shipping company, based at the ice-free Barents Sea port of Murmansk, says it also transferred nearly $5 million to the federal budget in 2004, and more than $6.5 million in 2003, the RIA Novosti news agency reported.
The company operates total 47 ships, including 8 nuclear icebreakers and one nuclear container ship.
“The Russian nuclear company Rosatom is not just another energy company. It is a state within the state, and a political instrument for the Kremlin. ...
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