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From: budden@trout.nosc.mil (Rex A. Buddenberg)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Civilian Nuclear Ships
Message-ID: <1991May15.060906.3201@amd.com>
Date: 15 May 91 03:26:32 GMT
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From: budden@trout.nosc.mil (Rex A. Buddenberg)


Soviets build several nuclear icebreakers.  Lenin and Arktika
classes had nuclear propulsion.  Hard information is a bit
difficult to come by, but the rumors we got when I was an icebreaker
driver indicated that the Soviets had a tough time keeping them
maintained and their safety records were not very good.
Reciting the moldy old rumors is outside scope, so I won't.

Rex Buddenberg