ST. PETERSBURG, January 26. The head of Rosatom, Alexey Likhachev, said that the corporation, together with USC and the Baltic Plant, will do everything possible to ensure that the new nuclear icebreaker Leningrad is put into operation on time or earlier.
“We will, together with the Baltic people, together with USC, do everything to be even a little ahead of time,” he said, answering the question whether the construction of the icebreaker will be completed on time in 2028.
“We really treat this work as if it were our own. We are a complete supplier: power generation, turbine units, automated process control systems (automated process control system — ed.). For us, of course, this is a burden for two. Therefore, we will do everything to Leningrad went into operation as soon as possible,” added the head of Rosatom.
According to Likhachev, the laying down of a new nuclear icebreaker is the next stage in the development of all the work of the Russian Federation on the Northern Sea Route. “This is a solution to the most important and, perhaps, even vital task for our country in these difficult times,” he noted.
Likhachev emphasized that for the country this opportunity to move along sea canals and reach deep water is more important than ever. “And the world is asking for, I would say, demanding, safe, new logistics routes. And the importance of the NSR in one sense or another is difficult to overestimate,” the head of Rosatom expressed his opinion.