It is navigable for several months in a year (from July to October), with the aid of the russian
nuclear icebreaker fleet.
Visit to Vladimir, Suzdal, including a choral performance and horse drawn sleigh ride, and Murmansk's
Nuclear Icebreaker Ship Museum.
Read this Moscow Times piece, with a headline that says it all: «
Nuclear Icebreakers Clear the Way for Arctic Oil.»
That geographic edge has spurred investment from Russia, including the construction of a fleet of
nuclear icebreakers and a $ 33 billion year - round Arctic seaport.
Not exact matches
In the 1950s,
nuclear power began to be used for commercial electricity generation as well as to drive submarines, navy ships and
icebreakers, and people spoke glowingly of future
nuclear - powered trains and aircraft.
But they are being escorted by the Russian
nuclear - powered
icebreaker 50 Years Since Victory to limit risk and also have Russian pilots aboard.
The largest
icebreaker in the Arctic is Russian, and it is
nuclear powered.
Russian
icebreakers, remote Antarctic research stations, and remote Siberian cities have all been powered with
nuclear energy instead of using oil.
The
nuclear powered
icebreaker NS Yamal, with shark's teeth painted on her bows, left Murmansk to rendezvous with the oil tanker MV Perseverance and escort her along the NSR to her China destination.