Soviet naval reactor

Soviet naval reactor

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

* Nuclear submarines:
** Attack submarines.
** Cruise missile submarines.
** Ballistic missile submarines.
* Nuclear icebreakers:
** Soviet icebreaker "Lenin".
** "Arktika"-class icebreakers.
** "Taymyr"-class icebreakers.
* Nuclear cruisers:
** "Kirov"-class battlecruisers.
* Merchant ship:
** "Sevmorput".

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

Reactor types


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