, May 22 -- Manufacturing of the first RITM-400 reactor, the most powerful in the world, has been completed by Rosatom. The reactor will be used in the nuclear icebreaker Rossiya. The icebreaker will have two such reactors.

Valentina Matvienko, Chair of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, and Alexey Likhachev, Rosatom Director General, formally announced the milestone achievement on May 21.

The next-generation reactor units of the Rossiya nuclear icebreaker will allow it to break through 4 meters of thick ice. Each of the two reactors, which will make the ship extraordinarily powerful, will be named after the legendary Russian heroes, Ilya Muromets and Dobrynya Nikitich.

"The completion of the RITM...