Nuclear freighter’s Arctic voyage sparks fear in Norway
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Nuclear freighter’s Arctic voyage sparks fear in Norway, Times, Marc Bennetts, Moscow, September 16 2019, Russia has sailed the world’s last civilian nuclear-powered cargo ship along the coast of Norway in a voyage that has caused concern in Oslo.
The Sevmorput, loaded with 5,000 tonnes of frozen fish and other seafood from the Pacific Ocean, left Russia’s far east Kamchatka region on August 29. The 30-year-old icebreaker’s reactor contains about 150 kilos of uranium. The ship sailed along the Arctic northern sea route before passing through the Barents Sea, the Norwegian Sea and the Baltic on its way to St Petersburg. This is the first time that Russia has used a nuclear-powered vessel to transport commercial cargo to St Petersburg along this route. Russian officials say they hope such voyages will become regular as melting ice sheets open new trade…(subscribers only) https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sevmorput-norway-worried-at-russian-nuclear-freighter-s-passage-5z5n9kwgg |
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