Soviet naval reactors

Updated on Oct 11, 2024

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Soviet naval reactors have been used to power both military and civilian vessels, including:

Nuclear submarines:

Cruise missile submarines.

Ballistic missile submarines.

Nuclear icebreakers:

Soviet icebreaker Lenin.

Arktika-class icebreakers.

Taymyr-class icebreakers.

Russian floating nuclear power stations:

Akademik Lomonosov

Nuclear cruisers:

Kirov-class battlecruisers.

Merchant ship:

Sevmorput

Command ship:

SSV-33 Ural

They have included both pressurized water reactors and a relatively few liquid metal fast reactors.

OKBM Afrikantov has been the primary designer of naval reactors for the Soviet/Russian Navy for more than 60 years.

Reactor types

'**'KPM-6 is developed by OKBM Afrikantov.

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