gCaptain Editors Observe – Sevmorput is certainly one of solely 4 nuclear service provider ships ever constructed. Inbuilt 1988 she is certainly one of solely 4 nuclear-powered service provider ships ever constructed. The opposite three – constructed by the US, Japan and Germany – are now not in fee.
by Lidia Kelly (Reuters) – Russia stated on Monday that emergency employees had put out a hearth on a Soviet-era nuclear-powered cargo-icebreaker ship and the state firm which runs the vessel stated there had been no casualties and no menace to the safety of the reactor.
The fireplace broke out on Sunday in one of many cabins of the Soviet-made Sevmorput ship, which is presently at dock within the northern Russian metropolis of Murmansk, the emergency ministry stated.
The fireplace, which at its peak lined an space of about 30 sq. meters (323 sq. toes), was put out with no casualties, the ministry stated.
“The fireplace was shortly liquidated,” Atomflot, which owns the vessel, stated in a press release. “There have been no accidents.”
“There was no menace to essential help techniques or to the reactor plant,” Atomflot stated.
Atomflot runs Russia’s fleet of nuclear icebreakers and is a unit of the Rosatom state nuclear company.
The Murmansk area, in Russia’s northwest, shares borders with Finland and Norway, in addition to with the Barents and White seas.
The ship, which entered service in 1988 and went by an in depth improve a decade in the past, is Russia’s solely nuclear-powered icebreaking transport ship, in line with Rosatom.
(Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne, Gleb Stolaryov in Tbilisi and Man Faulconbridge in Moscow; Modifying by Matthew Lewis, Kirsten Donovan)
