The Sevmorput, Russia’s first nuclear-powered icebreaker and cargo ship, caught fire. It was severely upgraded ten years earlier and went into operation in 1988.
The fire, which spanned over thirty square metres, broke out in one of the ship’s cabins near Murmansk, in northwest Russia. Fortunately, emergency personnel quickly put out the fire, and no casualties were reported.
The entity in charge of Russia’s nuclear icebreaker fleet, Atomflot, is a division of...