Rosatom has started breaking sunken ships in the Sakhalin Island port of Korsakov using laser equipment. This is the first time the mobile laser unit designed and built by Trinity Troiystk Innovation and Thermonuclear Research Institute, part of Rosatom Corporation, has been deployed.
The laser unit can cut metal structures up to 260 millimeters thick from a distance of up to 300 meters. Breaking the first vessels stared on October 14. The mobile laser unit was used to partially cut a sunken ship located 50 kilometers off shore. It will take a week to complete the cutting operations.
The mobile laser unit was also used to cut a ship sitting underwater at a depth of up to 4 meters not far from the berth.
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