The United States must build a fleet of nuclear-powered icebreakers to counter Russia and China’s advantage in the Arctic. The United States faces a developing crisis in the Arctic, where our ...

Putin’s state energy company put its new electric car on a nuclear icebreaker as part of a PR stunt ahead of its alleged soon ...

The newly-passed “Big Beautiful Bill” (BBB) includes more than $8.6 billion for the establishment of new US Coast Guard ...

For reference, Russia’s newest nuclear icebreaker, the Ural, launched in late 2022, has a displacement of upwards of 33,000 tons. According to Deng, ...

The Coast Guard plans to buy 84 new ships and aircraft by 2035 with an injection of $25 billion in supplemental funding ...

Icebreakers are key to operating in these waters. Russia has four nuclear-powered icebreakers, the largest of which, Yamal and 50 Let Pobody, displace 25,000 tons and can smash a channel through ...

Russia's nuclear-powered icebreaker Arktika leaves the port of Saint Petersburg on September 22, 2020 for its maiden voyage to its future home port of Murmansk in northwestern Russia, where it is ...

So purpose-built that they're almost unseaworthy on the open waves, nuclear icebreakers are a fascinating solution to a specific problem - and the new class of double acting reversible ships that ...

Additionally, a nuclear icebreaker dedicated to the Arctic would free up Xue Long 1 and Xue Long 2 to focus more on Antarctic missions and China’s growing number of research stations there.

The Leningrad is a fifth-generation nuclear-powered icebreaker. TASS reported the ship will be 173.3 meters (approximately 568.6 feet) long, 34 meters (about 111.5 feet) wide and 52 meters (170.6 ...

The new 220-meter dock built in Turkey is still stranded at port in Istanbul after the United Kingdom in May sanctioned the ...

The nuclear icebreaker was damaged on the port bow above the waterline. Russia's "50 Let Pobedy" nuclear icebreaker moored at the Arctic Ocean near the North Pole, in Arctic region on August 17, 2019.