Russia's latest nuclear-powered icebreaker Chukotka is aimed at boosting cargo traffic on the Northern Sea Route.

In addition, high borrowing costs for domestic projects to build ice-breakers are making Russia’s tariffs for vessel escort across the Northern Sea Route uncompetitive, he said. All these issues ...

The United States Navy’s Gerald R. Ford-class supercarriers are the largest military warships powered by nuclear propulsion.

Russia already uses nuclear-powered ice breakers to pave the way for such transport via the NSR, which runs along Russia's Arctic shores from Murmansk in the west to the Bering Strait in the east ...

As the Bastion missile launchers danced for the cameras on Alexandra Island, I spotted a Russian ice-breaker cutting through the frozen landscape in the distance. A smaller cargo ship followed in ...