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The incredible life and boats of Mexican billionaire Emilio Azcárraga Milmo

As Mexican billionaire Emilio Azcárraga Milmo lay dying aboard his daringly designed 75-metre Eco , the setting spoke volumes about one of yachting’s greatest-ever characters.

For one thing, it was the patrón’s stateroom, rather than the wheelhouse, that had the stellar views. “The pilot of my plane never looks out of the window,” Azcárraga had ruled. “I don’t see why the captain needs to.” But that night, 16 April 1997, the views would have been screened by curtains. The bulbous, curved-glass windows, which drew inspiration from 1950s Parisian buses and lent Eco her distinctively classic yet futuristic look, would have been shrouded by sumptuous, pale-coloured fabrics, muffling sound and cocooning the solemn scene.

That night, Eco was at rest in Miami Beach Marina. The vexing issue of mechanical vibrations – felt most acutely on the owner’s bed, caused by its famously powerful engines – had long since been resolved. Now, there was just the faint hum of the vessel’s “life support” systems. Otherwise, peace. The warm polished woods and buttery tones of François Zuretti’s interior design, fashioned in the spirit of the faraway art deco-themed Mamounia Hotel in Marrakesh, lent the scene a strange, intimate feel. It was an opportunity for Azcárraga to contemplate his final words and deeds – if he could only manage to quieten his mind.

Aged 66, Azcárraga, dubbed by many who knew him as El Tigre , had too much left to offer the world, particularly in the media (the primary vehicle for his wealth and power) and yachting ( Eco being his fifth yacht; surely he dreamed of more). Somehow, the progress of his cancer – first presenting as melanoma or skin cancer, almost certainly exacerbated by time enjoyed on his boat’s decks – had proved unstoppable.

He was accompanied on Eco during those final six weeks by Adriana Abascal, his fifth companion and a 1988 Miss Mexico four decades his junior. It is unclear who was aboard Eco that night besides core crew, which included his English butler, dutifully spoon-feeding him. But it was to his older sister, Carmela, that he is believed to have spoken his final words, “Now I’m going to meet Gina.” María Regina Shondube Almada, “Gina”, was his first wife, who’d died in 1952.

In the weeks following Azcárraga’s death, obituary writers struggled to summarise his extraordinary, kaleidoscopically complex life. “He is a media mogul who shuns the press,” the LA Times had printed in 1991, in a rare in-depth profile, adding that even his age was kept secret.

During the later 1990s, English academic and author Andrew Paxman wrote what is regarded as the reference biography of Azcárraga: El Tigre . While it remains in print, it has only been published in Spanish. Paxman, now based at Mexico’s CIDE University, has kindly made available the original English draft for the purpose of researching this article.

Often described as Mexico’s Rupert Murdoch, Azcárraga would have bridled at that label. As Paxman recounts it, Azcárraga’s power was much further reaching: “The history of Mexican television is, effectively, the history of the Azcárragas.” His Televisa TV company virtually owned the free time of Mexicans, giving him unparalleled influence over their cultural, social and political views – via a continual supply of approved news, variety shows, football and bullfight coverage, plus, above all, soap operas or telenovelas .

A symbiosis had evolved between Azcárraga’s empire – a media juggernaut able to unseat political candidates or endorse rigged elections – and the Mexican government, formed by the world’s longest-ruling political party, the PRI, which had the power to revoke media licences, regulate monopolies or even nationalise television. The two united around a singular view of Mexican nationhood. Storylines of the telenovelas promoted socially conservative values that encouraged citizens to accept their lot in life.

“It was a very privileged monopoly position,” says Felix Cortés Camarillo, who worked at Televisa for 28 years, ultimately as a senior executive in charge of news programming, and is now a journalist in Monterrey, Mexico. “We had the cake to ourselves.”

Televisa became the largest producer of TV content in the Spanish language in the world. “We sold telenovelas to the United States, Russia and China. The stories always followed the same line – the Cinderella tale of rags to riches: the poor humble individual who, through luck or effort, transforms.”

For the thousands of actors and musicians on Azcárraga’s payroll, it was less straightforward. More than wealth, Azcárraga prized control and loyalty. Paxman recounts him reprimanding the Televisa star Lucía Méndez, when she informed him that she was to have a baby – midway through a soap opera. “Why didn’t you plan it?” he reacted, aghast. “How are we going to manage if you get very fat?” Méndez was reduced to tears. He later apologised; “I want to ask for your forgiveness and to tell you that you’re right: you’ve been working for many years, you’re at the perfect age to have children, I’m very happy for you...”

Paxman saw the episode as pure El Tigre : first a mauling, then the “licking better” of the wound. His intimidation of businessmen, notably at the negotiating table, resulted in them leaving meetings struck by his charm and generosity.

Key to his way of being was his physical presence: powerfully built and well turned-out. An imposing aura and a full head of dark hair featuring a dramatic white stripe only burnished his reputation as El Tigre – a tiger attired in only the best suits.

El Tigre had always cut an imposing figure. Back in January 1952, Heine Shondube hosted the wedding reception for his beloved daughter Gina and 21-year-old groom Emilio Azcárraga Milmo in Mexico City’s elite, leafy Polanco district. In the garden, the cream of local society enjoyed a buffet of prawns, caviar and other delicacies, plus 80 cases of champagne. Emilio looked athletically tall and slim; Gina glowed with unusual beauty.

Azcárraga had needed all of his incipient wiles and charm to fight off other, older suitors and be able to wed the woman he loved – his avowed partner for life. As Teddy Roosevelt had put it, “Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.” By extension, nobody becomes a billionaire without collecting enemies or at least detractors along the way – with the possible exception of those inheriting such wealth, and the latter have their own crosses to bear, as Azcárraga was finding out. For it was Azcárraga’s father, “Don” Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta, who had amassed the family fortune. Starting out with a single radio station in 1930 (the year his son was born), Don Emilio would go on to acquire monopoly TV privileges via political shrewdness.

Don Emilio sent his son to military academy in the US – an environment only rivalled in terms of discipline by the more austere British boarding schools. Military academy interrupted Azcárraga’s courting of Gina, of which Don Emilio initially disapproved. By Emilio Jr’s age, Don Emilio said that he was founding auto-dealerships and dodging bullets in the Mexican Revolution. Azcárraga would complain, “If I do something well, people think it was my father’s idea. And if I do something badly, it’s because I’m an idiot.”

Worse was to come. Gina, soon pregnant, had developed a brain tumour. The pregnancy seemed to be exacerbating her condition; her headaches worsened and her physical functions gradually shut down. Emilio refused to leave her side. She managed to give birth only for the baby to die the next day. When her condition became critical, Don Emilio chartered a plane, rushing her to a New York hospital, but she didn’t regain consciousness. Azcárraga became a widower aged barely 22, just eight months married.

His grief was likely compounded by convulsive guilt. While it is now understood that a pregnancy does not worsen a brain tumour, he thought that his haste to have children contributed to her demise. He was inconsolable, retreating from society. When he re-emerged, he was less trusting – less willing to rely on other people. As he drew lessons from Gina’s death, his playboy persona emerged. Why invest in intimate relationships if they can be so cruelly, unpredictably snatched away from us?

From then on, he sought relationships on his terms. The role of the patrón came naturally, but his father was determined not to make life too easy for him. In a classic succession scenario, the patriarch identified various contenders – mostly rival in-laws – as potential candidates for taking over the family empire. Azcárraga would have to fight for his birthright.

He bided his time. The scores of attractive starlets arriving through the doors of the television centre were one distraction. These dalliances only worsened his relationship with his father, who would brutally, loudly denounce him as a lazy playboy with a short attention span, before settling on the most injurious of nicknames for him: the idiot prince.

Emilio Jr distracted himself on projects where he believed he could prove himself on his own terms. Pivotal among these was the building of the Azteca Stadium in Mexico City as a graceful structure able to seat 100,000 – the largest such stadium in the world. It would later turn into a major money-spinner for the Azcárraga family. But not before Don Emilio needed to step in to cover loans when the stadium build ran into financial difficulty.

For Azcárraga, it established a pattern. There would be the North Cove Marina in Manhattan, of which George Nicholson (of Camper & Nicholsons renown) was a stakeholder: it would launch during the late 1980s economic downturn and struggle for years to fill its expensive berths. Then there would be The National , the critically acclaimed US sports newspaper that ended up folding with losses of $100 million.

Don Emilio would not be available for further bailouts; he died in 1972, and Azcárraga took the helm. Upholding political bargains with governments, his stewardship of the family empire would prove astute and effective.

There was one milieu away from the family business and other travails where life proved plainer sailing: the commissioning and enjoyment of superyachts. Martin Francis , Eco ’s designer, remembers Emilio Azcárraga Milmo extremely fondly. “He was a one-off client,” says Francis. “He goaded us to rethink the parameters of superyacht architecture.”

Francis, 44 at the time, had been invited to advise on the design of the North Cove Marina. There, he met and impressed yacht builder George Nicholson, who was running the contest for Azcárraga’s new 55-metre-plus superyacht. The key desired attribute? She should be fast.

Francis had not designed a motor yacht before. Originally a cabinet maker and one-time set designer for The Rolling Stones, he’d worked in an engineering capacity for leading architects including Norman Foster and Richard Rogers, specifically with glass, fashioning the glass pyramid for the Louvre museum in Paris.

He’d also designed and made sailing vessels, but now found himself in deeper waters, driving to a sizable chalet on the outskirts of Gstaad during the winter of 1986, where he was to present his ideas for the new yacht to Nicholson and “The Tiger”. Also in the running: Jon Bannenberg , Feadship chief designer Frits de Voogt, and legendary automotive designer Giorgetto Giugiaro. “I was petrified,” recounts Francis. “To big myself up, I rented a top-of-the-range Mercedes and a room in the best hotel in Gstaad, neither of which I could afford at that time.”

The superyacht scene had first seduced Azcárraga in 1972, in Seville, where he’d met Nicholson and subsequently bought a 36-metre CRN, Caribe III . He graduated to a pair of Bannenberg-designed, Feadship-made superyachts, 46.6-metre Azteca and Paraiso , one kept ready for him in the Mediterranean, the other in the Caribbean.

Bannenberg was the perfect foil for Azcárraga: expansive, theatrical, a performer as well. The two Bannenberg yachts were rule-breakers. Dutch outfitters struggled with the interior specifications that included butter-soft kid leather panels and kilometres of thick polished Perspex. The upholsterers couldn’t accept that they needed to leave creases in the leather to achieve a quilted effect, rather seeking to pull them tight for a customarily smooth finish. There were so many handrails, door handles and other details specified in Perspex that a notation arrow on one of Bannenberg’s drawings accidentally turned into an oversized Perspex object.

And yet Eco was to be so much more revolutionary. It stood for Empresa de Comunicaciones Orbitales, the Spanish-language news channel that Azcárraga went on to set up in 1988. It means “echo” in Spanish, and the design was to be a ping or reverberation from some future beyond most people’s imagination. No convention would be taken for granted with this boat.

Back in the theatrically lit Gstaad chalet, Francis watched the imposing Mexican paw through his notepad of plans, head bowed. The patrón’s stony silence grew more ominous. Francis’s eclectic background facilitated a form of lateral thinking that led him to include not only a classical monohull design of the Feadship variety, but also ideas for catamarans, SWATHs (small waterplane area twin hulls), even a hovercraft, in order to attain the desired 25-knot speed. Finally, after 30 torturous minutes, Azcárraga ruled: “Your proposal is shit. But I like your work methods.”

Francis left the meeting amid falling snowflakes, his mind whirling with the understanding that he was to explore the proposals further. It would take another two years, and Azcárraga’s threat to buy Bannenberg’s Carinthia (which wasn’t for sale), before Francis arrived at the approved plan: a longer, battleship-styled beauty capable of carrying a fixed-wing seaplane on her aft deck (a helicopter would have been far simpler, but Azcárraga didn’t trust them). The patrón advanced Francis $5 million. “I don’t want to take on the entire German army,” he said, in an apparent reference to the nationality of the shipyard selected. “Let me know when you need more.” In other words, Francis was to run the project himself with Blohm+Voss of Hamburg.

Various design elements proved controversial from the start – famously, the moving of the wheelhouse from the upper to main deck level (in fact, visibility was never a problem). Then there were the curved windows. Nicholson, who was Francis’s sounding board throughout the project, told BOAT International in 2017: “At that stage we did not know if the hull and superstructure would be really stiff, and were afraid that these large and special windows would crack. It was a work of art to get them right.” (Only two of the 68 curved units have cracked; both more than 25 years after the yacht was built).

The real drama revolved around the propulsion configuration, which comprised three water-jets. To attain the desired speed, the LM1600 marine gas turbine was introduced. “It was the first production turbine for civilian use,” recalls Nicholson. “I had to sign an official secrets paper in order to buy it. The Aga Khan bought the next three engines for his transatlantic record-breaker, Destriero .”

The resulting speed caused Eco ’s stern to squat, so Francis affixed a never-attempted-before hydrofoil beneath the water-jets, which reduced trim variation to just 1.5 degrees between zero and maximum speed while actually improving hydrodynamic efficiency at lower speeds – but not before the engines blew up and the exhaust system ejected dark smoke and metallic debris during trials on the Baltic Sea. “Remember,” a Blohm+Voss representative reassured Francis, “we built the Bismarck .” Countered Francis, “we all know what became of the Bismarck !”

Francis’s loyalty and service were rewarded. During Eco ’s maiden voyage, he noticed some dirt on a section of carpet and felt Azcárraga’s gaze dwell on him as he picked it up. That same trip, he was given the VIP suite. FIFA president and soccer mogul João Havelange was also aboard when a plant-sprinkler mechanism on the deck above malfunctioned, flooding Havelange’s cabin. (Francis gave Havelange the VIP suite thereafter, moving to a standard cabin).

The narrow beam and expansive aft deck meant the accommodation needed to be cosy, but it was never exactly informal – at least, not while the patrón was aboard. Around an intimate dinner table, he would upbraid the Thyssen steel company president about a stainless-steel panel that had acquired some barely discernible scratches. Another time, he ordered up Dom Pérignon from the 3,000-bottle cave, rejecting two opened bottles in favour of an identical third one. He could equally be spectacularly generous, asking Francis to acquire Rolex watches for each place setting before another dinner, or gifting a sports car to each of Julio Iglesias’s three children after the singer broke off a performance to praise Azcárraga’s support for the Spanish language.

“Azcárraga was unpredictable in a magical way – the sort of client you only maybe meet once in a working lifetime,” summarises Francis. “For a short while during that stage of my life, it felt like anything was possible.”

Azcárraga had good reason to be pleased with Eco . She wildly exceeded expectations, reaching 36 knots when her fuel tanks weren’t full. Three decades on, she remains one of the fastest yachts in her class.

No longer would Azcárraga need to keep two yachts in different seas. Thirsty though she was, Eco would make six Atlantic crossings with the patrón aboard and total 225,000 nautical miles of cruising during his six years of ownership. One season  he took her from Hamburg to St Petersburg, then across to the UK, next down to the Mediterranean – the Balearics, Greece and Turkey – before crossing the Atlantic to the Caribbean and through the Panama Canal, finally ending up in Los Angeles. Nicholson had sourced a tanker that could refuel her in two hours, mid-Atlantic. “It was the smallest tanker that I could buy at 1,000 tonnes. We called her Eco Supporter. We used to send the tanker way ahead of Eco and make a rendezvous somewhere at sea,” he remembered.

Rumours surfaced that just before he died, Eco had slipped into international waters to avoid the legal requirement of a US death certificate specifying cause of death – that he died by euthanasia, exercising a final act of control. But this was not true, according to someone with first-hand knowledge of the situation: Eco remained peacefully in port, while the patrón sadly succumbed to a more protracted and less peaceful natural ending.

“The paradoxes in Azcárraga’s behaviour and fluctuations of his moods mean that a dozen people who met him might well give a dozen contradictory opinions of the man,” concludes Andrew Paxman. “Each will swear that his or her opinion is correct. El Tigre’s character was so strong and his physical presence so commanding that he made an indelible impression on almost everyone he met, leaving each of them sure that the way he behaved towards them was evidence of the one true Azcárraga, when in fact there were many.”

That chameleon-like quality is reflected in Eco , which equally defies any easy categorisation: battleship-fortress; ultra-de-luxe superyacht; timeless floating court; otherworldly, futuristic speed machine; and yet also now a true classic – a three-decade-old totem of which a special commemorative model is soon to be unveiled at the Yacht Club de Monaco. Just like Eco (now Zeus ), the man who commissioned her remains a giant of the yachting world.

First published in the August issue of BOAT International. Get this magazine sent straight to your door, or subscribe and never miss an issue.

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Monaco Yacht Club: An Exclusive Oasis For Marine Lovers

Looking down on the Yacht Club from Monaco’s exclusive seawater Spa, “ Thermes Marins ”, the new club-house really is a magnificent icon of multi-decked architecture – inaugurated in 2014 and designed by internationally renowned architect Lord Norman Foster.

Only in the Principality’s marina could you confuse this giant structure for the yachts around it that it resembles – a yacht mirage with a gorgeous deck with luxurious swimming pool and terraces for dancing. Splendid enough for meetings of the most discerning yacht enthusiasts, including the glitterati and “Three Comma” billionaires that frequent it.

Yachts Beyond the Reach of Mere Mortals

Some of the largest and most expensive yachts in the world dock here to take in the city’s pleasures, particularly during the iconic Monaco Yacht Show. You can wander around marvelling at all of the gadgets designers can inlay on these boats like the 348-foot-long AMADEA one of the largest and most distinctive superyachts in the world with its six distinctive guest decks. Or perhaps gaze at the 365-foot-long TIS, one of the largest and most regal yachts to be launched this year.

These superyachts, like the Yacht Club itself are like private islands and wouldn’t look out of place in a James Bond movie. If billionaires Bernard Arnault or Larry Page or Larry Ellison come calling, Monaco Yacht Club sets the stage perfectly.

Home of the Grimaldi Dynasty

For over 600 years from the 12th century onwards, the Grimaldi stronghold at Port Hercule, including where the Yacht Club now preens itself, was one of the prized naval assets on the Mediterranean. Its strategic location served more than once to change the course of history.

It was around the time of the reign of Charles III of Monaco that the Principality’s reputation as an international haven of luxury and wealth took off. And Charles III had the vision to encourage the development of Monaco as a magnet for international regattas of renown to which the world flocked.

Historic Regatta Heaven

The first of these regattas were held in the bay of Monaco in 1862, so successful that in 1888 the “Société des Régates” was established by Prince Charles III and his son Prince Albert I , affectionately known as the “Oceanographer Prince”.

Almost a century of famous regattas preceded the founding in 1953 by Prince Rainier and presided over by Prince Albert II since 1984, the Yacht Club de Monaco. The Club brings together more than 2000 members from 66 nationalities. Many of the world’s most prestigious private yachts fly the Yacht Club de Monaco’s burgee, testimony to its unique position in the International yachting world.

Prince Albert’s Presidency

In April 1984, with Prince Albert’s Presidency, he developed new international events such as the Primo Cup, the biggest gathering of monotype yachts in the Mediterranean Sea. Prince Albert also put emphasis on classic Yachting with the organization from 1994 of the Monaco Classic Week for vintage and classic yachts, the Prada Challenge for Classic Yachts.

Notably, it was the first visit of Atlantic 2010 (replica of the 1903 three-mast schooner on which Charlie Barr in 1905 set the best time for an Atlantic crossing) to the Principality. Another icon, the SS Delphine (1921) steam-boat made a welcome return. It was aboard this beauty that three world leaders, Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill, negotiated at least part of the 1945 Yalta Agreement.

Yacht Seasons are typically opened with ultra-private concerts at YCM with celebrities like Sir Elton John in 2016, Duran Duran in 2017, and Sting last year. It was yet another global star Lionel Richie singing “All Night Long” this September who delighted the many boat owners and YCM members. “All Night Long” was attended by YCM President, Prince Albert II and a host of international personalities including actor-producer Samuel L. Jackson, basketball legend Magic Johnson, Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba and fashion designer Domenico Dolce, one of the two behind the eponymous brand D&G.

Regatta and Sports Heaven with a Golden Future

The Monaco Yacht Club from its beginnings embraced and has nurtured a prestige Regatta program that has accelerated and taken on new dimensions under Prince Albert’s Presidency.

It is worth mentioning the Primo Cup again as it has quickly established itself as the big meeting that opens the season in the Mediterranean for Europe’s one-design elite. Just a few other examples of stand-out Regattas enjoyed by YCMmembers include:

Monaco Swan One Design,  (9th-13th April 2019) organized in conjunction with the Yacht Club de Monaco,  was the first event in the 2019 Nations Trophy Mediterranean League.

Monaco Globe Week with the IMOCA 60  – 60-foot monohulls being among the fastest modern racing monohulls have raced on a course totalling 1,300 nautical miles embracing some of the most emblematic marks in the Western Mediterranean.

Monaco Sportsboat Winter Series  offers a monthly programme alternating high level regattas and training weekends for onedesigns.

As well as the Primo Cup another innovation worth a double mention here is  Monaco Classic Week. Persuaded that the reading of the past holds keys for the future Prince Albert fostered the creation and coordination during five years of a unique circuit for vintage and classic yachts, the Prada Challenge for Classic Yachts, without forgetting the acquisition of Tuiga in 1995, since becoming the flagship of the YCM. More recently the wave continued with the launching in 2005 of the “La Belle Classe” label.

The whole yachting world continues to look to Monaco to organize its most prestigious events. Within the last 12 months, 200 guests from the America’s Cup community from around the world gathered at the Yacht Club de Monaco to celebrate the launch of  the Prada Cup – the Challenger Selection Series for the 36th America’s Cup  to be presented by Prada in January 2021 in Auckland – deemed as “ the quest for oldest trophy in sport ”, the America’s Cup. Not to forget  World Rowing with the  Prince Albert II Challenge , a 6000m coastal race organised by the Societe Nautique de Monaco.

The Enthusiasm and Promise of Monaco’s Youth at YCM

Looking to the future is the Monaco Sports Academy which provides support to gifted young Monaco sailors and sportsmen taking on the world. The Academy is a close collaboration between the Yacht Club de Monaco, presided by Prince Albert and its General Secretary Bernard d’Alessandri, and Philippe Ghanem who is an active member of the Club. They share a common goal: to help young athletes living in Monaco reach the highest level in sport.

Also founded in 1970 by Prince Rainier III, the Sports Section of Y.C.M. adapts training to youngsters from as young as age six from initiation to competition and at every age.

Look out for the Monaco Optimist Team Race from 9-12 January 2020. The regatta is reserved for 20 teams of young sailors, all under 14. YCM invites the most competitive clubs with emphasis on tactics and above all team-work.

Full of youthful energy and promise is  the Monaco Solar & Energy Boat Challenge  next held on 30 June-4 July 2020. The Yacht Club de Monaco, in collaboration with the International Powerboating Federation (UIM) and Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation organises the Solar & Energy Boat Challenge which is unique in the world.

How to become a new member of the Yacht Club

Anyone wishing to become a member of the Yacht Club de Monaco needs to be introduced by two “sponsors” from YCM. The sponsor’s letter of introduction will explain the applicant’s motives for joining the Club. Prince Albert, President of the Yacht Club, presides over the meetings of the admissions’ committee. The role of the sponsor is essential. The latter, must integrate him into the life of the Yacht Club, accompany him, present him to the other members but also involve him in organized events, whether they be social or sports.

The sponsor also undertakes to ensure that his “protégé” embraces the YCM’s philosophy and values, will actively engage in the Club’s life and keep its reputation at the pinnacle.

A Regal Club and Natural Host of Prestigious Events

The Yacht club reaches well beyond being a club for owners of yachts and superyachts. It is actually an immense infrastructure akin to a multi-tiered island that organises not only events connected to the yachts and regattas but also all kind of sports and social events, dances and entertainment. High society balls, conferences, exclusive business gatherings and prestigious auctions are just part of the kaleidoscope of activity.

The members of the club and their guests have at their disposition restaurants with Michelin Star chefs (including the exclusive 1909) gyms and a library – and a spa-zone, not to mention the gorgeous pool and terraces overlooking the azure bay. There is a truly great bar, a hive of social contact, with an international reputation and winner of awards for its unique cocktails and the skills of its bar staff. Endless discovery is to be found in each private niche of this island-club.

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Elektrostal , Moscow Oblast, Russia

For the first time Rosatom Fuel Division supplied fresh nuclear fuel to the world’s only floating nuclear cogeneration plant in the Arctic

The fuel was supplied to the northernmost town of Russia along the Northern Sea Route.

The first in the history of the power plant refueling, that is, the replacement of spent nuclear fuel with fresh one, is planned to begin before 2024. The manufacturer of nuclear fuel for all Russian nuclear icebreakers, as well as the Akademik Lomonosov FNPP, is Machinery Manufacturing Plant, Joint-Stock Company (MSZ JSC), a company of Rosatom Fuel Company TVEL that is based in Elektrostal, Moscow Region.

The FNPP includes two KLT-40S reactors of the icebreaking type. Unlike convenient ground-based large reactors (that require partial replacement of fuel rods once every 12-18 months), in the case of these reactors, the refueling takes place once every few years and includes unloading of the entire reactor core and loading of fresh fuel into the reactor.

The cores of KLT-40 reactors of the Akademik Lomonosov floating power unit have a number of advantages compared to the reference ones: a cassette core was used for the first time in the history of the unit, which made it possible to increase the fuel energy resource to 3-3.5 years between refuelings, and also reduce the fuel component of the electricity cost by one and a half times. The FNPP operating experience formed the basis for the designs of reactors for nuclear icebreakers of the newest series 22220. Three such icebreakers have been launched by now.

For the first time the power units of the Akademik Lomonosov floating nuclear power plant were connected to the grid in December 2019, and put into commercial operation in May 2020. The supply of nuclear fuel from Elektrostal to Pevek and its loading into the second reactor is planned for 2024. The total power of the Akademik Lomonosov FNPP, supplied to the coastal grid of Pevek without thermal energy consumption on shore, is about 76 MW, being about 44 MW in the maximum thermal power supply mode. The FNPP generated 194 million kWh according to the results of 2023. The population of Pevek is just a little more than 4 thousand, while the FNPP has a potential for supplying electricity to a city with a population of up to 100 thousand people. After the FNPP commissioning two goals were achieved. These include first of all the replacement of the retiring capacities of the Bilibino NPP, which has been operating since 1974, as well as the Chaunskaya TPP, which has already been operating for more than 70 years. Secondly, energy is supplied to the main mining companies in western Chukotka in the Chaun-Bilibino energy hub a large ore and metal cluster, including gold mining companies and projects related to the development of the Baimsk ore zone. In September 2023, a 110 kilovolt power transmission line with a length of 490 kilometers was put into operation, connecting the towns of Pevek and Bilibino. The line increased the reliability of energy supply from the FNPP to both Bilibino consumers and mining companies, the largest of which is the Baimsky GOK. The comprehensive development of the Russian Arctic is a national strategic priority. To increase the NSR traffic is of paramount importance for accomplishment of the tasks set in the field of cargo shipping. This logistics corridor is being developed due regular freight voyages, construction of new nuclear-powered icebreakers and modernization of the relevant infrastructure. Rosatom companies are actively involved in this work. Rosatom Fuel Company TVEL (Rosatom Fuel Division) includes companies fabricating nuclear fuel, converting and enriching uranium, manufacturing gas centrifuges, conducting researches and producing designs. As the only nuclear fuel supplier to Russian NPPs, TVEL supplies fuel for a total of 75 power reactors in 15 countries, for research reactors in nine countries, as well as for propulsion reactors of the Russian nuclear fleet. Every sixth power reactor in the world runs on TVEL fuel. Rosatom Fuel Division is the world’s largest producer of enriched uranium and the leader on the global stable isotope market. The Fuel Division is actively developing new businesses in chemistry, metallurgy, energy storage technologies, 3D printing, digital products, and decommissioning of nuclear facilities. TVEL also includes Rosatom integrators for additive technologies and electricity storage systems. Rosenergoatom, Joint-Stock Company is part of Rosatom Electric Power Division and one of the largest companies in the industry acting as an operator of nuclear power plants. It includes, as its branches, 11 operating NPPs, including the FNPP, the Scientific and Technical Center for Emergency Operations at NPPs, Design and Engineering as well as Technological companies. In total, 37 power units with a total installed capacity of over 29.5 GW are in operation at 11 nuclear power plants in Russia. Machinery Manufacturing Plant, Joint-Stock Company (MSZ JSC, Elektrostal) is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of fuel for nuclear power plants. The company produces fuel assemblies for VVER-440, VVER-1000, RBMK-1000, BN-600,800, VK-50, EGP-6; powders and fuel pellets intended for supply to foreign customers. It also produces nuclear fuel for research reactors. The plant belongs to the TVEL Fuel Company of Rosatom.

Rosatom obtained a license for the first land-based SMR in Russia

On April 21, Rosenergoatom obtained a license issued by Rostekhnadzor to construct the Yakutsk land-based SMR in the Ust-Yansky District of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

ROSATOM and FEDC agree to cooperate in the construction of Russia's first onshore SNPP

ROSATOM and FEDC have signed a cooperation agreement to build Russia's first onshore SNPP in Yakutia.

Rosatom develops nuclear fuel for modernized floating power units

Rosatom has completed the development of nuclear fuel for the RITM-200S small modular reactor designed for the upgraded floating power units.

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Monaco Yacht Club offers unique cruise to children in remission from cancer

The “À Chacun Son Cap” adventure will enable children from the IHOPe centre in Lyon to go sailing in the Mediterranean.

It’s a dream that’s about to come true. Thanks to the generosity of the Yacht Club de Monaco (YCM), children from the IHOPe institute in Lyon, who are in remission from cancer, will be able to try out their sea legs. Announced by François Miribel on Monday, March 4, 2024, the «À Chacun Son Cap» cruise is possible thanks to the participation of YCM members Neil Cheston, Andréa Statari, Christian Choquenet, Loïc Pompée and Paul Basson.

Aged 10 to 17, the youngsters will sail along the coast between Hyères and Monaco. The boats will set sail on 21 April and arrive on 27 April. An unprecedented experience that will conclude at the YCM.

ASM – PSG: moving tribute to paediatric cancer charity Fondation Flavien

Much more than a cruise

More than a sailing trip, «À Chacun Son Cap» is all about hope and solidarity. A unique way of bringing a little happiness to the youngsters, and helping them put the disease ‘on hold’ for a few days.

This is not a first for François Miribel. A year ago, he visited the children at the Institut d’hématologie et d’oncologie pédiatrique (IHOPe – Pediatric hematology and oncology institute) in Lyon, with the crew of the Sir Ernst. He recounted his latest expedition in the canals of Patagonia and shared Boréal 47’s adventures, along with Fabrice Papazian and Thierry Leret from the YCM.

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Kristall Elektrostal

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Kristall Elektrostal is a professional team that plays in the Vysshaya Liga . The team is based in Elektrostal , Moscow Oblast , Russia and was founded in 1949 .

The club is currently affiliated with HC MVD Balashikha of the Kontinental Hockey League .

• 1 Achievements
• 3 All-time standings
• 4 Elektrostal Greats
• 6 External links

Achievements [ ]

• Vysshaya Liga champions: 1 (1972).

History [ ]

All-time standings [ ], elektrostal greats [ ], see also [ ].

• Category:Kristall Elektrostal player
• Category:Kristall Elektrostal coach

External links [ ]

• Kristall's official website (in Russian)
• 1 Gardiner MacDougall
• 2 American Premier Hockey League
• 3 Seventh Player Award