Arctic, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet

Russia trumpets victory in new ‘super modern’ nuclear icebreaker project

St. Petersburg’s Baltic Shipyard has won an uncontested tender to build the first three of Russia’s new generation of “super modern” universal-use nuclear icebreakers in a $2.3 billion windfall for the Unified Shipbuilding Corporation owned conglomerate.

http://bellona.org/news/arctic/russian-nuclear-icebreakers-fleet/2014-05-russia-trumpets-victory-new-super-modern-nuclear-icebreaker-project

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