Rosatom has completed a contract to build reactor units icebreaker project 22220. Today in St. Petersburg on the Baltic Shipyard sent a second reactor RITM-200 production enterprises PAO “ZIO-Podolsk”, Instrument Division included in corporation “Rosatom” holding “Atomenergomash”. This was reported by the press service of the holding.
The first reactor, the company went to St. Petersburg at the end of September. In this way, According to the press service of the, “Atomenergomash”, having made three reactor systems for nuclear icebreaker LK-60YA project 22220, He has fully complied with its obligations. Each reactor system comprises two reactor RHYTHM 200. AT 2016 year installation was head icebreaker “Arctic”, at 2017 year – first serial icebreaker “Siberia”. Now, the nuclear installation is provided and a second serial icebreaker “Ural”.
The latest Russian reactor facility “RITM-200” included in the main power plant icebreaker and includes two reactor thermal power 175 MW each. Its main advantage over other similar installations is compact and economical, as well as energy efficient integral arrangement, which allows to make double-draft icebreaker, ie. able to work both in deep water, and in riverbeds, thereby replacing two types of icebreaker.
Currently, the Baltic Shipyard is building three versatile double-draft nuclear icebreakers LK-60YA project 22220 (“Arctic”, “Siberia” and “Ural”). According to the design data, new icebreakers will be the biggest and most powerful in the world. They will be able to conduct convoys in the Arctic, punching along the movement ice to three meters thick.
