Nuclear icebreaker of the new series is to be laid down at Baltiysky Zavod (St. Petersburg) in 2010, Sergei Kirienko, Director General of State Corporation Rosatom said Tuesday, April 21, at the forum “Nuclear power, society, safety”, BIA reports.
According to Sergei Kirienko, the development of the new series of icebreakers under federal special-purpose program Transport Infrastructure Development is nearing completion. Sergei Kirienko also reminded that nuclear icebreaking fleet was handed over to Rosatom in August 2009.
Baltiysky Zavod, JSC is one of the leading enterprises in the Russian shipbuilding industry (member of United Shipbuilding Corporation). Currently the Baltiysky Zavod shipyard specializes in construction of icebreakers and ice-classed vessels (with nuclear-powered propulsion, as well as conventionally powered), large commercial vessels for carrying various types of cargo, and naval ships. The company also manufactures a wide range of marine propulsion equipment and machinery for equipping ships built at the shipyard, as well as for supplying other yards. Baltiysky Zavod also manufactures heat exchanges for nuclear power plants and is a major producer of non-ferrous and core-mould castings.