Russia's only nuclear-powered transport icebreaker on fire in Murmansk
Kyiv • UNN
On December 24, a fire broke out on the world's only Russian nuclear-powered container ship, the Sevmorshlyakh, built in 1988. No one was injured.
On December 24, a fire broke out on the nuclear-powered container ship Sevmorshlyakh in Murmansk, Russia. This is the largest of all four nuclear-powered merchant ships ever built. This was reported by the Russian media, UNN reports .
The area of the fire was 30 square meters. At 00:01 am Kyiv time, rescuers reported that they had extinguished the fire. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, no one was injured,
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Atomflot reported that the fire did not threaten the ship's reactor and life support systems.
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"Sevmorshlyakh" is the world's only icebreaking and transport vessel with a nuclear power plant. The vessel was built in 1988 at the Zatoka shipyard in Kerch.
