World’s most powerful nuclear icebreaker Arktika launched in Russia

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The N.E. passage hasn't been used much but with global warming it's quite practical during the summer. Nuclear-powered icebreakers don't need fuel depots so in the sparsely-settled Canadian Arctic they should be ideal. They'd have to use local pilots, I suppose...but the contamination issue is the big worry - the Lenin's record was scary...

I do not know anything about plans of work with Canada. This icebreakers originally created for the Russian Northern Route. And planned number of ships at the moment is clearly not enough for both North Passages.