The new 220-meter dock built in Turkey is still stranded at port in Istanbul after the United Kingdom in May sanctioned the ...

The United States must build a fleet of nuclear-powered icebreakers to counter Russia and China’s advantage in the Arctic.

Russia’s newest icebreaker, the nuclear-powered Arktika, is headed to its new homeport in St. Petersburg, Russia. The ship, painted in the colors of the Russian state flag, will operate north of ...

Russia's nuclear-powered icebreaker Arktika leaves the port of Saint Petersburg on September 22, 2020 for its maiden voyage to its future home port of Murmansk in northwestern Russia, where it is ...

On June 21, 2018 China National Nuclear Corporation, an arm of the Chinese government, opened up bids to shipbuilders for the country’s first nuclear powered icebreaker.

According to Deng, CSSC is actively promoting the development of “multiple nuclear-powered icebreakers and nuclear power platform solutions for different scenarios, “ listing Arctic shipping ...

Russia has failed to complete tests on its newest nuclear-powered icebreaker—the largest of its kind in the world—as there was not enough ice in the Arctic to carry out the trials.

A nuclear-powered icebreaker lost control and slammed into a cargo ship it had been sent to rescue. The Russian vessel, Fifty Years of Victory, was en route to assist the bulk carrier Yamal ...

So purpose-built that they're almost unseaworthy on the open waves, nuclear icebreakers are a fascinating solution to a specific problem - and the new class of double acting reversible ships that ...

The Leningrad is a fifth-generation nuclear-powered icebreaker. TASS reported the ship will be 173.3 meters (approximately 568.6 feet) long, 34 meters (about 111.5 feet) wide and 52 meters (170.6 ...

This is the terrifying moment an out-of-control nuclear icebreaker collided with a cargo ship that it had been sent to rescue in the Arctic. The nuclear-powered vessel, named The Fifty Years of ...

Russia is currently the only country with nuclear-powered icebreakers and has used them since the 1970s. In fact, in 1977 the reactor-powered Arktika became the first surface vessel to ever reach ...