The first reactor for the icebreaker Sibir went to the Baltic Shipyard
Engineering Division of the State Corporation "Rosatom" holding "Atomenergomash“completed production and sent to St. Petersburg at the Baltiysky Zavod the first reactor of the RITM-200 power plant for the first production atomic icebreaker of the 22220 Siberia project, the company’s press service reported on Monday, 18, September.
RITM-200 is the latest installation, which includes two reactors with a capacity of 175 MW each. According to the developers, the main advantage of the new power unit is its compactness and cost-effectiveness: it is two times lighter, one and a half times more compact and 25 MW more powerful than the currently used icebreaking reactor plants fleet.
Reactor powerplant RHYTHM-200 for the icebreaker project 22220 "Siberia"
The service life of the reactor - 40 years. As a nuclear fuel, a cassette-type core with low enrichment of uranium-235 is used. Reboot occurs once every seven years.
The manufacture of the second reactor for Siberia is nearing completion: the hull has successfully passed hydrotesting and the process of the control assembly with in-situ devices and a lid begins. They promise to ship it at the end of September.
Baltiysky Zavod is building three nuclear icebreakers of the 22220 project. The head ship "Arktika" was laid in November 2013 of the year, launched 16 on June 2016 of the year. May 26 2015 of the year laid the first serial icebreaker of the project - "Siberia", and July 25 2016 of the year - the second, "Ural". The launch of Siberia into the water is scheduled for September 22.
Atomic ships of the 22220 project are intended for self-guided ships and year-round leadership of caravans in the Western Arctic region, in the shallow water areas of the Yenisei and the Gulf of Ob, towing ships, as well as assisting and performing rescue operations in ice conditions and on clean water. Icebreakers are able to overcome up to a 2,8 meter of solid, steady fast ice. They should be the most powerful ships of this type in the world.
RITM-200 is the latest installation, which includes two reactors with a capacity of 175 MW each. According to the developers, the main advantage of the new power unit is its compactness and cost-effectiveness: it is two times lighter, one and a half times more compact and 25 MW more powerful than the currently used icebreaking reactor plants fleet.
Reactor powerplant RHYTHM-200 for the icebreaker project 22220 "Siberia"
The service life of the reactor - 40 years. As a nuclear fuel, a cassette-type core with low enrichment of uranium-235 is used. Reboot occurs once every seven years.
The manufacture of the second reactor for Siberia is nearing completion: the hull has successfully passed hydrotesting and the process of the control assembly with in-situ devices and a lid begins. They promise to ship it at the end of September.
Baltiysky Zavod is building three nuclear icebreakers of the 22220 project. The head ship "Arktika" was laid in November 2013 of the year, launched 16 on June 2016 of the year. May 26 2015 of the year laid the first serial icebreaker of the project - "Siberia", and July 25 2016 of the year - the second, "Ural". The launch of Siberia into the water is scheduled for September 22.
Atomic ships of the 22220 project are intended for self-guided ships and year-round leadership of caravans in the Western Arctic region, in the shallow water areas of the Yenisei and the Gulf of Ob, towing ships, as well as assisting and performing rescue operations in ice conditions and on clean water. Icebreakers are able to overcome up to a 2,8 meter of solid, steady fast ice. They should be the most powerful ships of this type in the world.
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