Fire breaks out on Russian nuclear merchant icebreaker in Murmansk
A fire broke out on a Russian nuclear-powered container ship and icebreaker docked at the Atomflot berth in the northern port of Murmansk, the country's Emergencies Ministry reported on Telegram on Dec. 24.
The fire broke out in a cabin of the ship, named the Sevmorput, and spread to about 30 square meters, prior to being extinguished. No injuries were reported as a result of the blaze. The ministry’s statement did not disclose what caused the fire or how close it was to the ship's reactor, though state-owned nuclear-powered icebreaker operator Atomflot claimed that the fire did not threaten the ship's reactorand life-support systems.
The 260-meter Sevmorput, built in 1988, is one of only four nuclear-powered merchant ships ever built and the only nuclear-powered cargo ship in service in Russia, powered by a 29-MW reactor.
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