Russia: Nuclear-Powered Icebreakers

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ICEBREAKER CLASS	YEARS	TOTAL BUILT	REACTOR MODEL	POWER	FUEL ENRICHMENT
Lenin	1959-1965	1	2-3 PWR*/OK-150 and OK-900	90 MWt	5%
Arktika	1975-present	5**	2 PWR/OK-900A	75 MWt	45-75%
Taymyr	1989-present	2	1 PWR/KLT-40	135 MWt	up to 90%

* PWR is pressurized water reactor.
** An additional icebreaker, the 50 Let Pobedy, was launched in 2005 but has yet to enter service.

Sources:
[1] Nuclear Wastes in the Arctic: An Analysis of Arctic and Other Regional Impacts From Soviet Nuclear Contamination," OTA-ENV-623, (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, September 1995), p. 135.
[2] Nikolay Melnikov, Vladimir Konukhin, Vadim Naumov, Pavel Amosov, Sergey Gusak, Andrey Naumov, Yuriy Katkov, Yuriy Smirnov, Aleksandr Orlov, and Yuriy Rybin, "Dolgovremmennoye bezopasnoye khraneniye otrabotavshego yadernogo topliva sudovykh yadernykh ustanovok v Severo-Zapadnom regione Rossii" (Apatity: Gornyy institut Kolskogo nauchnogo tsentra Rossiyskoy akademii nauk Rossiya, date unknown), p. 4.

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