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PhOtO-Russia Unveils World's Biggest Nuclear Icebreaker
Russia Unveils World's Biggest Nuclear Icebreaker: Gigantic Ship Can Smash Through Ice 10 Feet Thick and 13 Feet Deep
- The enormous Arktika icebreaker is 586 feet long and more than 100 feet wide
- It will be equipped with two water distillers, each able to process 70 tonnes of water
- The new icebreakers from Project 22220 will be able to break ice up to 10ft thick, and 13ft deep
Daily Mail UK, 20June 2016...
Russia has floated out the hull for what will soon be the world’s largest nuclear-powered icebreaker.
The Arktika is set to become the most powerful twin-reactor icebreaker, and will join the Rosatomflot fleet to help maintain national defences and navigate the Arctic.
The massive vessel is a part of the $1.9 billion Project 22220, and when completed, the Arktika will be able to process nearly 150 tonnes of water.
Russia has floated out the hull for what will soon be the world’s largest nuclear-powered icebreaker. The Arktika is set to become the most powerful twin-reactor icebreaker, and will join the Rosatomflot fleet to help maintain national defences and navigate the Arctic
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ARKTIKA ICEBREAKER
Russia’s enormous icebreaker is 586 feet long and more than 100 feet wide.
It will be able to break ice up to 10 feet thick, and 13 feet deep.
The Arktika will be equipped with two water distillers, each able to process 70 tonnes of water, and will displace 33,540 metric tons.
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NB from Ladybbird:
Incredible Historical Achievement, Which Will Help Many Explorers in the FUTURE, eh Folks?...
BUT, MANY Years in the Future, I expect the US will record this & claim they did that..
As they did on such matters like DISCOVERING the INTERNET..
*(UK ORIGINALLY INVESTIGATED/DISCOVERED the NET in 1966)...
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*DNA ...(Scientists, from Leicester UK, in 1987)
..ORIGINALLY DISCOVERED the LINKS between genes/family history etc. & continued to improve their findings..EVENTUALLY they did..
The US NEVER actually attributed the findings of that history...
YET THEY accuse us PIRATEs of BREAKING COPYRIGHT RULES 1st....DUH?.. 
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