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

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The commercial shipping industry is chasing a novel carbon-free propulsion technology as it pursues a lofty climate goal: nuclear power.

Russia said on Monday that emergency workers had put out a fire on a Soviet-era nuclear-powered cargo-icebreaker ship and the state company which runs the vessel said there had been no casualties ...

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 ...

Today, Russia's Sevmorput is the only nuclear-powered merchant ship still in service. For 36 years, the icebreaker has shepherded cargo and vessels through Russia's Northern Arctic, where fueling ...