A single day of bookmarking ships is postponed indefinitely

A single ship-laying day, scheduled for late April, is postponed indefinitely due to the spread of coronavirus infection. It is reported by Mil.Press FlotProm with reference to a senior source in the shipbuilding industry.

According to a source, the command of the Russian Navy decided to postpone a single bookmarking day "to the right" for an indefinite period. Now considered May 9 as one of the possible dates for the ceremony. It is emphasized that even if a positive decision is made to set a date, the openness of the ceremony, i.e. the presence of guests, journalists, etc., will depend on the situation with the spread of the viral infection.

Technically, both the fleet and the shipyards are ready for the bookmark, however, most likely, its term will be postponed to a more calm time in the epidemiological plan

- said the source.

Earlier it was reported that the Russian Navy and USC planned on April 28, 2020 to hold a single day for laying ships, during which six new units were to be laid down at various shipyards at once fleet.

According to the plans, two universal landing ships (UDC) were to be laid down at the Zaliv plant in Crimea, two frigates of project 22350 at the Severnaya Verf shipyard in St. Petersburg and two multipurpose submarines of project 855M at Sevmash in Severodvinsk.

In total, in 2020 the Ministry of Defense plans to lay down 22 warships and vessels in the interests of the Russian Navy. It was argued that the frigates of the project 22350 will be laid in St. Petersburg according to the modernized version.

Comments

[Aristarkh Lyudvigovich]

Bookmarking is a formality; you can build without it. The main thing is to have a contract. OJSC Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky ”in the Republic of Tatarstan, for example, in 2017, the third frontier patrol ship of Project 22100 Ocean was laid. At the same time, the construction of the ship began in 2015. The English with the Dreadnought had a similar story, which led to the bike about the “record fast construction.”

[Ross xnumx]

Quote: Aristarkh Ludwigovich

Bookmarking is a formality; you can build without it.

Hell knows... On the one hand, amendments to the constitution were approved and approved by voting at the level of the law, and, on the other hand, they insist on the need for a popular vote ...
As for the bookmarking day, this is a formality. More important is the date of launching (even if not uniform) ...

[Lexus]

As for the bookmarking day, this is a formality

This is a formality for us, but for hucksters and judas - exactly the opposite.

[210ox]

Or we can do without formalities and build ?!

[businessv]

Quote: ROSS 42

On the one hand, amendments to the constitution were approved and approved by voting at the level of the law, and, on the other hand, they insist on the need for a popular vote ..

Because if the vote fails, the amendments will be canceled .... Will it be canceled? ... Most likely, we will vote as it should, or they will vote for us!

[Motorist]

More important date of launching

There are two important dates: keel bookmark and transfer to the customer.

The keel bookmark is like a birthday. If you were born before the blacks were renamed African-Americans, then you will remain a black. This is very approximate, there are many positive examples.

And from the date of transfer to the customer, warranty periods begin.

The moment of launching is, of course, important, but after this the completion and various tests can last a very long time (and not once!).

[Boa kaa]

Quote: Motorist

There are two important dates: keel bookmark and transfer to the customer.

Well, well ... On the tab - the priest with his blessing for the construction is quite enough ... And there is nothing to do with all this when he gets in touch ...

Quote: Motorist

The keel bookmark is like a birthday.

Bookmark is like a wedding night. Then the "fetus" develops: one on the slipway, the other in the womb. But an abortion and even a caesarean section are possible ... Remember how many ships, solemnly "laid down" with pomp and an orchestra, were never launched (Skr Fog), dismantled into metal (TAVKR Ulyanovsk at 82% readiness!).

Quote: Motorist

The moment of launching is, of course, important, but after this the completion and various tests can last a very long time (and not once!).

Launching is essentially the birth of a ship. Yes, he can "learn to walk" for a long time, but killing him would be a crime that hardly any of the bonzes would dare.
But, "There is no mind - consider a cripple!" Not enough of your own - you should see how others do it.
The British are a maritime nation with centuries-old traditions. They have one holiday - SHIP NAME! before launching it into the water. Even monarchs do not disdain such an event.

It is with such a birth that the first persons of the state, industry, and navy should be present.
And after the state, at the ceremony of raising the flag there should be, besides the naval ones, the Godmother of the ship, relatives of the person whose name the ship bears, heads (cities, provinces), if it is named after them.
Something like this, it seems to me, would be more logical.

[Motorist]

On the tab - quite enough and the priest

Pop is just not needed - you need a "notary".

A bookmark is like a wedding night.

All the same, the date of conception is not included in the birth certificate, the conception was during design.

[Boa kaa]

Quote: Motorist

Conception was in the design.

Design is a declaration of intent.
Techproject - instructions for the wedding night ...

[Observer2014]

Fuck knows ... request On the one hand, amendments to the constitution were approved and approved by voting at the level of the law, and, on the other hand, they insist on the need for a popular vote ... wassat

Really! Neither reduce. Do not add!

[Sky strike fighter]

It was argued that the frigates of project 22350 would be laid in St. Petersburg according to the modernized version.

The modernized frigates 22350 are meant with 24 UKKS, and not 16 as the first ones in the series. The project 22350M will not be completed before 2022. Work is still underway on it.

The Northern Design Bureau did not stop work on the development of frigates of project 22350M. Information about the cancellation of plans for the creation of the ship, circulated by a number of media outlets, is untrue. This Mil.Press FlotProm told a senior naval source.

"Now we are talking about the customer's decision on the timing of the development of the technical project (project 22350M ship - ed.); The coordination of all documents and the subsequent allocation of funds takes some time. The situation is being resolved in a working order," he added.
In the final report of the Northern PKB for 2019, there is a wording about "the absence of a subsequent decision by the customer to start ... the work planned on the basis of the draft design (frigate) 22350M". Some publications interpreted these words as the closure of the project, which is incorrect, concluded the interlocutor of Mil.Press FlotProm.

In December 2019, the president of the United Shipbuilding Corporation Alexei Rakhmanov told the publication that work on the frigate of project 22350M would be completed in 2022. After that, you can expect the laying of the lead ship

Project 22350M frigates will have a displacement of about 8000 tons and will be able to carry up to 48 Kalibr cruise missiles. Their arsenal will also include Zircon hypersonic missiles. The power plant will be entirely Russian.

https://flotprom.ru/2020/%D0%9E%D1%81%D0%BA6/

[Sergey39]

Well, right. Once everything is ready, but the pandemic issue has not even reached a peak, it is better not to rush.

[Second major]

It would be better to conceive a single landing day for those who plunder the money for the construction of the Navy

[BARKAS]

And the day before will be a single day of emigration.

[Second major]

emigration only after imprisonment and confiscation

[ccsr]

planned on April 28, 2020 to hold a single day of laying ships, during which six new units for the Russian fleet were to be laid at once at various shipyards.

Some clever men still laughed at the elders from the Politburo when they started something by a certain date. And now they even waved it wider - immediately lay all the ships in one day, as if they were making paper boats. And the fact that the level of readiness of projects and sites at different factories may not coincide, and quarterly funding exists, is that our new PR managers don’t care - that’s certainly zeal out of mind ...

[PN]

Everything is ready for the bookmark. This is just a formality (to fix a mortgage board to an existing section of the ship).

[ccsr]

Quote: PN

Everything is ready for the bookmark.

Well, if everything was ready by the beginning of April, for example, then you should immediately bookmark it so that everything goes according to plan. Otherwise, it will be simply inappropriate window dressing - I think so.

[kjhg]

Quote: ccsr

Well, if everything was ready by the beginning of April, for example, then you should immediately bookmark it so that everything goes according to plan.

This happens with a normal system.

Quote: ccsr

Otherwise, it will be simply inappropriate window dressing - I think so.

Yes, everything turned into inappropriate window dressing. No sooner did the factory paint really dry, as the cars rolled out onto Red Square with loud statements: new heat has no tax in the world. And that years ahead of them are waiting for years of testing, refinement and alterations, not a word. Yes, and whether they will even be placed in the troops at least in some significant amount is unknown. But the GOP is no longer just pronounced, but shouted to the whole world. There is one old saying: they didn’t boast about walking with the rat, but. The whole board of zeroing turned into one endless PR company.

[PN]

It was not ready by the beginning, it was ready by the end ... Yes, and the bookmark is not a transfer (when they turn a blind eye to imperfections, just to pass it by the scheduled date). And it is better to lay it in one day than to be constantly distracted and arrange a "holiday" (but this is a private opinion).

[Ross xnumx]

The single ship laying day, scheduled for the end of April, is postponed indefinitely due to the spread of coronavirus infection.

I want to see for myself whether the event scheduled for May 23, 2020 in Moscow streets will be held in Moscow. Only then can I say for sure that the cause of the spread of coronavirus can make fundamental changes in the processes of public life and in the economic structure of society.

[Pvi1206]

a single voting day ... a single ship laying day ... labor gifts for the next congress of the CPSU ... what was, is and is ... and what is, it will be ...

[Sasha Minakov]

Who was standing on whom? what are you speaking about?)

[iouris]

They will explain everything to you.

[Black_hawk]

Hello, I have a question for professionals. I figured out how to save space for missile shafts from a corvette to a destroyer. I don’t know why this design is not used, can someone explain it. A helicopter can be built around a helicopter landing site . It will be the width of the ship's hull. When it is supposed to take off, the roof moves apart (first diagonally, then to a vertical position, and then moves to the side walls). The sidewalls along the guides move forward to the outer walls of the ship. If now in the hangar If there are any racks, then we transfer them somewhere. If you could imagine and understand me, then tell me if this is possible?

[loki565]

Most likely you will not be prompted. Unfortunately, two or three people became on the forum, who saw the ship from the inside, the rest of the sofa experts)))

[Ross xnumx]

Quote: loki565

Most likely you will not be prompted. Unfortunately, two or three people became on the forum, who saw the ship from the inside, the rest of the sofa experts)))

The absence of specialists on the site who generally saw the Russian helicopter carrier is not so important as the presence of “couch experts” in the Moscow Region and the design bureau ...

[Sergey S.]

Quote: ROSS 42

The absence of specialists on the site who generally saw the Russian helicopter carrier is not so important as the presence of “couch experts” in the Moscow Region and the design bureau ...

The postulate is 100% true.
But the reality is not so scary.
In KB, all newly-arrived young people are still being driven through construction plants ...
But given the decline in the quality of education starting from kindergarten, the decrease in the number of orders, especially in the 1990s and beyond ... professionalism disappears or dissolves ...
But in the fleet, the helicopter carriers of the Soviet fleet have long gone to India for needles ...
so there are a lot of "sofa experts" in this narrow question ...

[Andrei from Chelyabinsk]

Quote: Black_hawk

If you could imagine and understand me, then tell me if this is possible?

Maybe. But it is not necessary, from the word "absolutely".

Quote: Black_hawk

I thought, it seems, how to save space for missile silos from a corvette to a destroyer.

The ship does not need to save space. The ship needs to save weight :)))) That is, if, for example, at the design stage, they decided to abandon the hangar, then this will release weight that can be spent on something else, including missiles. And the hangar you are proposing will be heavier than usual, since you will have to provide folding structures and power drives with motors to move the walls and roof. That is, applying such a hangar on, say, a frigate of project 22350, you will encounter the fact that you will have to reduce the ammunition of the same missiles (or other important loads) in order to compensate for the increased weight of the hangar.
As a result, in an effort to increase ammunition, you will reduce it

[Black_hawk]

I thought I would open my eyes to the designers, nothing came of it) The roof can be made like a garage door, which consists of many thin plates and due to this save weight. The truth is that such a roof is most likely not suitable for northern conditions, and even the wind can not stand it. But I understood you, the matter is in mass. If only a place is freed up under small zuras that are lighter than calibers? But then again they say that Americans use standardized mines from tomahawks, where they place three zuras in one mine. We should also go along this path. would never have that weight on it’s so important for the ship. I thought the weight of 10-20 tons the ship will not even feel. Thank you for the comment!

[Andrei from Chelyabinsk]

Quote: Black_hawk

The roof can be made like a garage door, which consists of many thin plates and due to this save weight. The truth is that such a roof is most likely not suitable for northern conditions and the wind will not stand.

You yourself answered the question you raised :))))

Quote: Black_hawk

But here again they say that the Americans use standardized mines from Tomahawks, where they place three dhows in one mine. We should also go along this path.

And so they go. In the mines of the "redoubt" missiles, you can put either one relatively long-range missile defense system, or 4 small ones.
And UKKS - it is for another. There you can put missiles in the RCC variant, or a cruise missile for firing along the coast, or PLUR. In theory, it would be nice to cram the heavy missiles there too, of course ....

[dvina71]

Quote: Black_hawk

I came up with, it seems, how you can save space for missile silos from a corvette to a destroyer

Probably easier to place Zur on a helipad .. not?
The fact is that it’s not possible to shove weapons into the ship’s hull endlessly. It has load carrying capacity .. into which you need to shove a lot of everything. At the same time, you must comply with the requirements necessary for seaworthiness and speed. There are still survivability requirements for the hull ..

[Black_hawk]

Honestly, I didn’t think that the mass is so important on the ship. I thought it wasn’t a plane and 10 tons wasn’t a hindrance to it.

[for]

Quote: Black_hawk

I thought, it seems, how to save space for missile silos from a corvette to a destroyer.

You can still hang beds along the sides. Overhang from the stern as a latrine. And much more. What do you think, under the helipad, the uselessly occupied area is located. Almost everything on NK and especially submarines is multifunctional.

[Black_hawk]

What is under the helipad? there are some technological holes that cannot be covered. Do you need to hang up the beds on-board only if the crew is reduced?

[Avior]

I grieve you, The idea is not new, cleaned hangars have long been used.
For example, a similar hangar was provided on the Famous Project 956 destroyers

The designers did not provide for a permanent helicopter hangar on the project’s ships, however, instead of it, on the project’s ships there is a telescopic (movable) aluminum alloy hangar, in which it is possible to temporarily shelter 1 Ka-27 helicopter. The helipad is located almost in the middle of the ship (behind the aft superstructure)

http://voenchel.ru/index.php?newsid=5169

Unfortunately, they do not replace a permanent solid hangar

[Black_hawk]

Hmm, interesting! How durable is it and why? Then the project changed my mind a bit) The width of the hangar will not be the width of the ship, but the width of the rocket mines. on the sides of the shafts there is a distance to the side on each side. At first I thought the walls of the hangar would hang down on the sides of the sides in the air, but it’s more difficult and heavier. In front of the walls they will lean and fasten to the superstructure with the shafts, and two supports will rise or extend behind, the back of the wall will be locked to them with electromechanical locks. I think the walls are not thick at the hangar. There are still composite materials (they are used in the wing of the aircraft), the loads there will withstand large, I think sea winds, as an option.

[Avior]

By themselves, the launch pad cells on the deck take up relatively little, so there’s simply no point in saving them space with such a light hangar
It used to be the majority of weapons stood on deck and took up a lot of space
Now it's different
For example, the size of the American launcher for 8 cells is 3,5 by 2,5 meters, the UVP of 32 cells will take 7 by 5 meters, this is very little
The problem is rather in their weight.
A permanent hangar is much stronger and more convenient, additional aircraft accessories, weapons, spare parts, etc. are sold under it, in the event of a helicopter breakdown or just if necessary, a helicopter from another ship can temporarily be located on the ship and so on

[Grits]

Quote: Black_hawk

A helicopter hangar can be built around its runway.

Rotating screws are still large enough in diameter. And nobody will go into the box tightly. And when the helicopter is planted in the hangar, the blades add up

[businessv]

In 2020, the Ministry of Defense plans to lay down 22 warships and vessels in the interests of the Russian Navy.

I will say as always in this case: this is great news! May Day, dear friends! Health, happiness, peaceful sky!

[Sky strike fighter]

It is also planned to lay 9 and 10 Borey-A this year. 5 Borey Prince Oleg has already been launched, who knows?

MOSCOW, November 29 - RIA Novosti. The ninth and tenth nuclear submarines of the upgraded project 955A ("Borey-A") are planned to be laid on May 9, 2020 and transferred to the Russian Navy in 2026 and 2027, a source in the military-industrial complex told RIA Novosti.
"The laying of the ninth and tenth" Boreas "is scheduled for May 9, 2020. The transfer to the Navy - in 2026 and 2027," - said the agency's source.

https://ria.ru/20191129/1561729083.html

[Maks-80]

6 ships throughout the country. It’s ridiculous. In Soviet times, one shipyard could produce so much in a year.

[carstorm 11]

In total, in 2020 the Ministry of Defense plans to lay down 22 warships and vessels in the interests of the Russian Navy. It was argued that the frigates of the project 22350 will be laid in St. Petersburg according to the modernized version.
how do you read the texts I personally do not understand ....

[Ross xnumx]

Quote: carstorm 11

In 2020, the Ministry of Defense plans to lay down 22 warships and vessels in the interests of the Russian Navy.

In a mortgaged country it is not clear to anyone where the Moscow company supplies 50 kopek medical masks to Saratov at 425 rubles each:

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Where the authorities are trying to organize some kind of production of important medical supplies, suddenly in the midst of a pandemic they started talking about the laying of 22 warships ...
Why not? The main thing is to shout "ku-ka-re-ku", and there at least do not dawn!
What are all the same trusting people we have. They are fooled, hang noodles on their ears, for years they have been calculating the time of repair and reconstruction of existing warships, but they still believe ... How much more do you need to knock on the forehead?
Name at least one project completed on time. Disgusting all this. It is disgusting that degraded senility persistently pushing the country into the abyss to the friendly applause of the electorate ...
But the Soviet Union was slammed, sung, lost, promoted ... Well, what’s there. After zeroing, you still have a time car.

[loki565]

So what? In the times of the USSR, there was a Stakhanov movement, but now you will find people who would plow for three shifts for reading and writing?)))

[dvina71]

Quote: loki565

then three shifts would plow for a letter?)))

Nobody plowed for a letter in the USSR ... The same Stakhanov received not a small salary ..

[Ross xnumx]

Quote: loki565

Now you will find people who would plow for shifts for three shifts?

Today it is difficult to find shipbuilders who are able to carry out their work without flaws and violations even for a very decent (by government standards) remuneration. Tell me, who knows, how much was the salary at the shipyards in 1975, when a drifter at the Severnaya mine in Kemerovo earned 400-450 rubles a month ...

[dvina71]

Quote: ROSS 42

Tell me, who knows, how much was the salary at the shipyards in 1975, when a drifter at the Severnaya mine in Kemerovo earned 400-450 rubles a month ...

Passers in the shipyards did not work and do not work. So no one will tell you their sn. A highly skilled worker received so much somewhere.
It is difficult to find highly qualified specialists in any industry and in any country .. Therefore, they strive to replace voluminous work with robots and mechanization. At the same Sevmash, earlier sheets were cut with gas by several highly qualified gas cutters. Now this is done by one operator on a laser cutting machine.

[regdan]

We have not decided yet how to cut the money, and so they put it off. As they come to an agreement, they will immediately begin to build

[xomaNN]

Yes, inappropriately, the virus has spoiled the shipping industry. So on April 26, the 90th anniversary of Korabelka - LKI - SPbGMTU was postponed to autumn ...

[Paranoid50]

Quote: xomaNN

On April 6, the 90th anniversary of Korabelka - LKI - SPbGMTU was postponed to autumn ...

But the date itself was widely publicized, at least in all local media. At school, where he once finished 10th grade (No. 245), to this day (and more than 30 years have passed), one class on the stream is profile from LCI, now they even have their own form.

[askort154]

The single ship laying day, scheduled for the end of April, is postponed indefinitely due to the spread of coronavirus infection.

And if "He" came in 1941 ?! What - self-isolate Country of Soviets, "Hitlerocoronavirus" has come to you.

[Maks1995]

But the hype was, the hype ....
Already thought, in fact, they will ....
And everything was blown away again ... Then Khoja Nasredin will move the deadlines, and the icebreaker Chernomyrdin will breathe: as always .....

[dvina71]

Quote: Max1995

Already thought, in fact, they will ....

It’s good to live in ignorance .. Bookmarking is a formality .. Screwing a plate .. to the already built part of the ship .. This means that the keels of these 6 ships are either already assembled or are being assembled. Metal is cut in neighboring shops for frames, bulkheads and lining. .

[Maks1995]

This is understandable.
What is this sign, like: as the ship is laid, so it will be built)))))

[dvina71]

Quote: Max1995

What is this sign, like: as the ship is laid, so it will be built)))))

Learn the details of the bookmark of the British Dreadnought .. sarcasm will decrease ..

[Maks1995]

About the Dreadnought only a lazy expert-moroman did not write ....

[Koval Sergey]

It is emphasized that even if a positive decision is made to set a date, the openness of the ceremony, i.e. the presence of guests, journalists, etc., will depend on the situation with the spread of the virus infection.

That's right, let them build and not be distracted. Report and then you can. Similarly, I think about space launches.

[Reserve buildbat]

I do not understand. The laying of ships, even if several at once, is not a public holiday. What can be said about the transfer "due to the virus"? That's bullshit. Reschedule the show, don't slow things down.

[Dart2027]

Quote: Stroibat stock

Reschedule the show, do not slow down the matter

Show and carry. It has been explained several times that a bookmark is just an event.

[Tests]

xomaNN (Nikolay), dear, shipbuilders and ship repairmen in the era of the new coronavirus, it's not a sin to turn on their bright heads! After all, they work in compartments often on top of each other, almost like in the St. Petersburg metro in the morning on Prospet Veterans. Evil tongues tell such a horror story: We sent a team of specialists from Okeanpribor to Severodvinsk for just 5 days on a business trip. As a result, one has the virus - to the hospital, the rest - to quarantine, those who have been in direct contact with them - to quarantine at home. And who did they contact on the road, on the watch of the enterprise, in stores, who would reveal? The city is now expecting an increase in the number of cases, like the diamond miners at AGD Diamonds. Why not introduce obligatory observation in the region for those who came from Moscow and St. Petersburg for 2 weeks? Although, this is a rhetorical question ... But the PR press service of the USC and the Russian Navy would not be wrong to think that gathering hundreds of people in the workshop on a single day of laying down ships is a job for pathologists in a couple of weeks, especially in St. Petersburg .. .And for the glorious LCI it is not a sin to raise a glass in the fall! In 1959, as LKI opened an evening department in Severodvinsk, my dad, being a defectoscopist of the X-ray laboratory of SEVMASH, entered the Faculty of Mechanics. Fate decreed that he was given a record book and a student card from No. 1. In the mid-60s, our SevmashVTUZ became an independent institute, and in April 2012, he died quietly, absorbed by the Northern Arctic Federal University.

[Sergey S.]

Quote: Tests

In the mid-60s, our SevmashVTUZ became an independent institution, and in April 2012 he died quietly, absorbed by the Northern Arctic Federal University.

SevmashVTUZ remained a branch of Korabelka until 2012.
Due to this, he lived - Korabelka gave an order to train specialists in the profile of shipbuilding and related specialties ...
Sometimes the landing of teachers from Leningrad came to Severodvinsk.
All educational and methodological support was affirmed (covered) by the Ship.
And the Northern Arctic Federal University - on the basis of the Sawmill ... Here are the shipbuilding specialties and ended up in the pen ....

[Pashhenko Nikolay]

And why not lay down each ship as you are ready for this? Why do we need to tie it to one day? Why do we need to arrange a pathos booth about this? Without this, the construction of ships does not begin?

[Tests]

ROSS 42 (Yuri Vasilyevich), dear, at SEVMASH and Zvyozdochka in Severodvinsk, where are the northern ones, the reactor is warm, almost 100% of the output is for the USSR Navy or in Kerch, where there are no northern ones, and not everything for the USSR Navy?

[veritas]

The single ship laying day, scheduled for the end of April, is postponed indefinitely due to the spread of coronavirus infection

Only the lazy now on the coronavirus will not be justified.

[iouris]

With the same success it could be postponed for a "certain time".
Anything that is transferred (this is how the "bridge of the nose" is spelled correctly) is now not really needed.

[Grits]

Something I was not at all surprised.

[Scharnhorst]

I would be a pi (D) aristocratic official who disseminated the first information about a single day, but I still attracted under the article on the dissemination of false information in the context of coronavirus infection as a lousy blogger! The law is one for all!

[Tests]

Sergey S. (Sergey), dear, for sure, SevmashVTUZ was always a branch of LCI and was not independent even in the 80s and 90s? For some reason I was sure that he was an independent institution. Maybe because Mr. Olin in the 90s began to teach physical education teachers in it, moving floorball in the city, maybe because there was a law faculty at the Pomor State University and suddenly a law faculty appeared at the VTUZ, where the former political officer of the Severodvinsk Department of Internal Affairs, (in August 1996, in the Operational Headquarters in Grozny, he left wounded FSB and MVD officers and, with the same "advisers", on KAMAZ, without an order, broke through from the encirclement to the main forces of the federal troops) defended his Ph.D. NUCLEAR PLANT. Although, by that time, there were no operating floating nuclear power plants in the world. The Americans no longer exploited theirs, and we haven’t exploited ours yet.