Arctic icebreakers. Icebreakers have reinforced hulls and are used to break through sea ice and open up passageways for other ships. The yellow ship i

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Arctic icebreakers. Icebreakers have reinforced hulls and are used to break through sea ice and open up passageways for other ships. The yellow ship is the Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker Rossiya. It has two nuclear reactors: one is used to power the ship, and the other is the backup energy supply. Nuclear-powered icebreakers can only travel in cold waters, in order to cool their reactors. Photographed off Murmansk in the Russian Arctic in 2002.

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