Kovalchuk points to Russia's advantage in nuclear icebreaker fleet

Russia has been using a nuclear-powered icebreaker fleet for decades, and in this it is seriously ahead of the United States. This was stated by Mikhail Kovalchuk, President of the Kurchatov Institute National Research Center (NRC), on February 21 on the sidelines of the Future Technologies Forum. Mikhail Kovalchuk on the margins of the Future Technologies Forum.

He reminded that the Russian Federation is constantly working in the Arctic region. In addition, Russia has the largest population in this zone - almost 2 million people.

"The Americans have two icebreakers - they have no nuclear icebreakers, which means they have no experience, that is, we are a decade ahead," Kovalchuk told Izvestia.

The scientist noted that the Russian Federation can also be somewhere in line with other countries and somewhere lagging behind, but that's "the way life works." The technological race is moving, it has its own system of priorities, and this is normal, he added.

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