| Russia's Rosatom Builds 2nd Reactor for World’s Largest Nuclear Icebreaker |
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Multithumb found errors on this page: There was a problem loading image http://cdn5.img.sputniknews.com/images/104142/18/1041421861.jpg  Russia 17:14 27.06.2016(updated 17:34 27.06.2016) Get short URL © Sputnik/ Sergey Subbotin The 189-yard-long ship worth $1.2billion was officially launched earlier in June. It is expected to be commissioned in December 2019. The ship will be capable of plowing through 10-feet-thick ice while on the move. "The power unit’s second reactor was sent off from the ZiO-Podolsk plant [part of Rosatom’s Atomenergomash company] on June 26," Atomenergomash said in a press release. The RITM-200 power unit is composed of two 175MW compact reactors. It weighs half as much as the power units currently in use by the Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker fleet.
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