Soviet naval reactor
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Soviet naval reactors have been used to power both military and civilian vessels, including:
  • Nuclear submarine
    Nuclear submarine
    A nuclear submarine is a submarine powered by a nuclear reactor . The performance advantages of nuclear submarines over "conventional" submarines are considerable: nuclear propulsion, being completely independent of air, frees the submarine from the need to surface frequently, as is necessary for...

    s:
    • Attack submarines.
    • Cruise missile
      Cruise missile
      A cruise missile is a guided missile that carries an explosive payload and is propelled, usually by a jet engine, towards a land-based or sea-based target. Cruise missiles are designed to deliver a large warhead over long distances with high accuracy...

       submarines.
    • Ballistic missile submarines.
  • Nuclear icebreakers:
    • Soviet icebreaker Lenin
      Soviet icebreaker Lenin
      The NS Lenin is a Soviet icebreaker launched in 1957, and is both the world's first nuclear powered surface ship and the first nuclear powered civilian vessel. Lenin was put into operation in 1959 and officially decommissioned in 1989....

      .
    • Arktika-class icebreakers
      Arktika class icebreaker
      The Arktika class is a Russian class of nuclear powered icebreakers. They are owned by the federal government, but were operated by the Murmansk Shipping Company until 2008, when they were transferred to the fully government-owned operator Atomflot. Of the ten civilian nuclear powered vessels...

      .
    • Taymyr-class icebreakers.
  • Nuclear cruisers:
    • Kirov-class battlecruisers
      Kirov class battlecruiser
      The Kirov-class battlecruiser is a class of nuclear-powered military ships of the Russian Navy, the largest and heaviest surface combatant warships currently in active operation in the world. The Russian designation is heavy nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser...

      .
  • Merchant ship:
    • Sevmorput
      Sevmorput
      Sevmorput is a Russian nuclear-powered icebreaking LASH carrier and container ship. Delivered in 1988 and named after the Northern Sea Route , she is the last of only four nuclear-powered cargo ships ever built and the only one still operating on nuclear power.- Development and construction :The...

  • Command ship:
    • SSV-33 Ural
      Soviet command ship SSV-33
      SSV-33 Ural was a command and control ship operated by the Soviet Navy. SSV-33's hull was derived from that of the nuclear powered Kirov class battlecruisers. SSV-33 served in electronic intelligence, missile tracking, space tracking, and communications relay roles...


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

Reactor types

Reactor system Reactor designation Type Power Date of first deploy Uses
OK-150
OK-150 reactor
The OK-150 reactor and its successor, the OK-900 reactor are Soviet marine nuclear fission reactors used to power ships at sea. They are pressurized water reactors that use enriched uranium-235 fuel...

3* ??? PWR 3* 90 MW 1959 Icebreaker Lenin
Soviet icebreaker Lenin
The NS Lenin is a Soviet icebreaker launched in 1957, and is both the world's first nuclear powered surface ship and the first nuclear powered civilian vessel. Lenin was put into operation in 1959 and officially decommissioned in 1989....

 before renovation
??? 2* VM-A PWR 2* 70 MW 1959 November class attack submarines
November class submarine
The Project 627 class submarine was the Soviet Union's first class of nuclear-powered submarines. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization used the standard radio communication phonetic alphabet to denote submarine classes...


Echo class cruise missile submarines
Echo class submarine
The Echo class submarines were nuclear cruise missile submarines of the Soviet Navy built during the 1960s. Their Soviet designation was Project 659 class for the first five vessels, and Project 675 for the following twenty-nine...



Hotel class SLBM submarines
Hotel class submarine
The Hotel class is the general NATO classification for a type of nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine that was originally put into service by the Soviet Union around 1959. The Soviet designation is Project 658.-Design:...

??? 2* VT RM-1
VT-1 reactor
The VT-1 reactor was the nuclear fission reactor used in a pair to power Soviet submarine K-27 as part of the Soviet Navy's Project 645 Кит-ЖМТ. It is a liquid metal cooled reactor , using highly enriched uranium-235 fuel to produce 73 MWt of power....

LMFR 2* 73 MW 1963 Attack submarine K-27
Soviet submarine K-27
The K-27 was the only submarine of Projekt 645 in the Soviet Navy. Project 645 did not have or need its own NATO reporting name. That project produced just one test model nuclear submarine, one which incorporated a pair of experimental VT-1 nuclear reactors that used a liquid-metal coolant ,...

OK-300 2* VM-4 PWR 2* 72 MW 1967 Victor I; II class attack submarines
Victor class submarine
The Victor class is the NATO reporting name for a type of nuclear-powered submarine that was originally put into service by the Soviet Union around 1967. In the USSR, they were produced as Project 671. Victor-class subs featured a teardrop shape, which allowed them to travel at high speed...

OK-350 1* VM-4-1 PWR 1* 89 MW 1967 Charlie class cruise missile submarines
Charlie class submarine
The Charlie class submarine is a nuclear powered cruise missile submarine built for the Soviet Navy and later operated by the Russian Navy.-Background:...

OK-700 2* VM-4-2 PWR 2* 90 MW 1967 Yankee class SLBM submarines
Yankee class submarine
The Yankee class is the NATO classification for a type of nuclear-powered submarine that was constructed by the Soviet Union from 1968 onward. 34 units were produced under Project 667A Navaga and Project 667AU Nalim...

??? 2* V-5R PWR 2* 177 MW 1969 Papa class attack submarine
Papa class submarine
Soviet submarine K-162 was the world's fastest submarine. The first submarine constructed with a titanium hull, she was the only vessel of the Soviet Union's Project 661 Anchar nuclear-powered attack submarine design. The boat is best known in the West by its NATO reporting name Papa class...

OK-900 2* ??? PWR 2* 159 MW 1970 Icebreaker Lenin
Soviet icebreaker Lenin
The NS Lenin is a Soviet icebreaker launched in 1957, and is both the world's first nuclear powered surface ship and the first nuclear powered civilian vessel. Lenin was put into operation in 1959 and officially decommissioned in 1989....

 after renovation
OK-550
OK-550 reactor
The OK-550 reactor is the nuclear fission reactor used to power three of the seven boats of the Soviet Navy's Project 705 Лира fourth generation submarines...

1* BM-40A
BM-40A reactor
The BM-40A reactor is the nuclear fission reactor used to power four of the seven boats of the Soviet Navy's Project 705 Лира fourth generation submarines...

LMFR 1* 155 MW 1971 Alfa class attack submarines
Alfa class submarine
The Soviet Union/Russian Navy Project 705 was a class of hunter/killer nuclear powered submarines. The class is also known by the NATO reporting name of Alfa...

OK-700 2* VM-4B PWR 2* 90 MW 1972 Delta I class SLBM submarines
Delta II class SLBM submarines
OK-900A (?) 2* KLT-40M
KLT-40 reactor
The KLT-40 and KLT-40M reactors are nuclear fission reactors used to power the Taymyr-class icebreakers and the LASH carrier Sevmorput...

PWR 2* 171 MW 1975 Arktika-class icebreakers
Arktika class icebreaker
The Arktika class is a Russian class of nuclear powered icebreakers. They are owned by the federal government, but were operated by the Murmansk Shipping Company until 2008, when they were transferred to the fully government-owned operator Atomflot. Of the ten civilian nuclear powered vessels...

OK-700A 2* VM-4S PWR 2* 90 MW 1976 Delta III class SLBM submarines
Delta III class submarine
The 667BDR Kaľmar Delta-III class submarine is a large ballistic missile submarine operated by Russian Navy. Like as other previous Delta class submarines the Delta III is a double hulled design with a thin low magnetic steel outer hull wrapped around a thicker inner pressure hull.- Design :The...

OK-300A (?) 2* VM-4A PWR 2* 72 MW 1977 Victor III class attack submarines
Victor class submarine
The Victor class is the NATO reporting name for a type of nuclear-powered submarine that was originally put into service by the Soviet Union around 1967. In the USSR, they were produced as Project 671. Victor-class subs featured a teardrop shape, which allowed them to travel at high speed...

OK-650M
OK-650 reactor
The OK-650 reactor is the nuclear fission reactor used singly to power the Soviet Navy'sProject 685 Плавник ,Project 971 Щука-Б , andProject 945 Барракуда, Кондор, and Марс submarines, and in pairs to power the...

2* ??? PWR 2* 190 MW 1980 Oscar class cruise missile submarines
Oscar class submarine
The Project 949 and Project 949A Soviet Navy/Russian Navy cruise missile submarines ....

OK-900 2* KN-3
KN-3 reactor
The KN-3 reactor is the nuclear fission reactor used in pairs to power the Kirov-class battlecruisers. The reactor was also intended to be used on the Ulyanovsk class of supercarriers. It is a pressurized water reactor , using enriched uranium-235 fuel to produce 300 MW of power....

PWR 2* 300 MW 1980 Kirov-class battlecruisers
Kirov class battlecruiser
The Kirov-class battlecruiser is a class of nuclear-powered military ships of the Russian Navy, the largest and heaviest surface combatant warships currently in active operation in the world. The Russian designation is heavy nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser...

OK-650
OK-650 reactor
The OK-650 reactor is the nuclear fission reactor used singly to power the Soviet Navy'sProject 685 Плавник ,Project 971 Щука-Б , andProject 945 Барракуда, Кондор, and Марс submarines, and in pairs to power the...

2* ??? PWR 2* 190 MW 1981 Typhoon class SLBM submarines
Typhoon class submarine
The Project 941 or Akula, Russian "Акула" class submarine is a type of nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine deployed by the Soviet Navy in the 1980s...

OK-650B-3
OK-650 reactor
The OK-650 reactor is the nuclear fission reactor used singly to power the Soviet Navy'sProject 685 Плавник ,Project 971 Щука-Б , andProject 945 Барракуда, Кондор, and Марс submarines, and in pairs to power the...

1* ??? PWR 1* 190 MW 1983 Attack submarine K-278
Soviet submarine K-278 Komsomolets
K-278 Komsomolets was the only Project 685 Плавник nuclear-powered attack submarine of the Soviet Navy. The boat sank in 1989 and is currently resting on the floor of the Barents Sea, one mile deep, with its nuclear reactor and two nuclear warheads still on board...

 (Mike class)
OK-650A
OK-650 reactor
The OK-650 reactor is the nuclear fission reactor used singly to power the Soviet Navy'sProject 685 Плавник ,Project 971 Щука-Б , andProject 945 Барракуда, Кондор, and Марс submarines, and in pairs to power the...

1* ??? PWR 1* 190 MW 1984 Sierra class attack submarines
Sierra class submarine
The Sierra I class or Project 945 nuclear submarine was the Soviet Union's successor class to the partly successful Project 705 Lira class submarine...

OK-9VM
OK-650 reactor
The OK-650 reactor is the nuclear fission reactor used singly to power the Soviet Navy'sProject 685 Плавник ,Project 971 Щука-Б , andProject 945 Барракуда, Кондор, and Марс submarines, and in pairs to power the...

1* ??? PWR 1* 190 MW 1984 Akula class attack submarines
Akula class submarine
Project 971 Щука-Б , is a nuclear-powered attack submarine first deployed by the Soviet Navy in 1986...

OK-700A (?) 2* VM-4SG PWR 2* 90 MW 1984 Delta IV class SLBM submarines
??? 1* KLT-40M
KLT-40 reactor
The KLT-40 and KLT-40M reactors are nuclear fission reactors used to power the Taymyr-class icebreakers and the LASH carrier Sevmorput...

PWR 1* 171 MW 1988 Taymyr-class icebreakers
??? 1* KLT-40
KLT-40 reactor
The KLT-40 and KLT-40M reactors are nuclear fission reactors used to power the Taymyr-class icebreakers and the LASH carrier Sevmorput...

PWR 1* 135 MW 1988 Merchant ship Sevmorput
Sevmorput
Sevmorput is a Russian nuclear-powered icebreaking LASH carrier and container ship. Delivered in 1988 and named after the Northern Sea Route , she is the last of only four nuclear-powered cargo ships ever built and the only one still operating on nuclear power.- Development and construction :The...

OK-900 (?) 2* KN-3
KN-3 reactor
The KN-3 reactor is the nuclear fission reactor used in pairs to power the Kirov-class battlecruisers. The reactor was also intended to be used on the Ulyanovsk class of supercarriers. It is a pressurized water reactor , using enriched uranium-235 fuel to produce 300 MW of power....

 (VM-16 (?))
PWR 2* 171 MW 1989 SSV-33 Ural-command ship
Soviet command ship SSV-33
SSV-33 Ural was a command and control ship operated by the Soviet Navy. SSV-33's hull was derived from that of the nuclear powered Kirov class battlecruisers. SSV-33 served in electronic intelligence, missile tracking, space tracking, and communications relay roles...

OK-650B
OK-650 reactor
The OK-650 reactor is the nuclear fission reactor used singly to power the Soviet Navy'sProject 685 Плавник ,Project 971 Щука-Б , andProject 945 Барракуда, Кондор, and Марс submarines, and in pairs to power the...

 (?)
2* ??? PWR 2* 190 MW 2009 Borei class SLBM submarine
Borei class submarine
The Borei class is a class of nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine produced and operated by the Russian Navy. The class is intended to replace the Delta III, Delta IV and Typhoon classes now in Russian Navy service...

OK-650V
OK-650 reactor
The OK-650 reactor is the nuclear fission reactor used singly to power the Soviet Navy'sProject 685 Плавник ,Project 971 Щука-Б , andProject 945 Барракуда, Кондор, and Марс submarines, and in pairs to power the...

 (?)
1* KPM (?) PWR 1* 200 MW expected 2011 Graney class attack submarines
Graney class submarine
The Yasen-class submarine , also known in the literature as the Graney class and Severodvinsk class, is a new Russian nuclear multipurpose attack submarine class...

??? 2* KLT-40S
KLT-40 reactor
The KLT-40 and KLT-40M reactors are nuclear fission reactors used to power the Taymyr-class icebreakers and the LASH carrier Sevmorput...

PWR 2* 150 MW espected 2012 Russian floating nuclear power station
Russian floating nuclear power station
Floating nuclear power stations are vessels projected by Rosatom that present self-contained, low-capacity, floating nuclear power plants...

 Akademik Lomonosov
Akademik Lomonosov
Akademik Lomonosov is a non-self-propelled vessel to be operate as the first Russian floating nuclear power station. The ship was named after Academician Mikhail Lomonosov.-History:...

??? ?* RITM-200
RITM-200
The RITM-200 is a design for a pressurized water reactor being developed by OKBM Afrikantov and is designed to produce 55 MWe. It would use 20% enriched uranium-235 and will be refuelled every 7 years for a 40 year planed lifespan....

PWR ??? MW expected 2015 New generation of icebreakers
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