Service Life Prolonged
Originally designed for 100,000 hrs of reactor life, the Arktika’s service life was prolonged another 50,000 hrs in 2000, and another 25,000 hrs after that, adding eight years to a 25 year planned service life. The life extension was accomplished by means of replacing critical equipment to allow the safe and continued operation of the Nuclear plant. On May 17, 2000, a conference of Russian engineers, scientists, and government officials took place on board the Arktika after her first service extension. The extension cost only $4 million dollars, while a new nuclear icebreaker would be $30–50 million, and proved to be a successful endeavor. The conference concluded thus that the lifetimes of Russian nuclear icebreakers could be successfully extended to 175,000 hrs, and possibly more.
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