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If by "very thin" you mean up to 2.5 meters thick, then yeah. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-powered_icebreaker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-po

• dogma1138 9y ago
  That’s thin, ice shelfs are 100m to over 1KM in thickness, sea ice can be over 3m thick, or at less used to be more than 3.5m thick on average these days it’s below 1.5m. Ice breakers used to be limited to periods where the sea ice would be thin enough to break these days they pretty much go all year around but they still break only relatively thin sea ice and can’t do shit to an ice shelf.