Russia already uses nuclear icebreakers to support gas transport along Russia’s Arctic coast from Murmansk in the west to the Bering Strait in the east.
Russia has begun designing nuclear submarines to export natural gas from the Arctic to Asia to reduce travel time on the Northern Sea Route. Reuters wrote this on Wednesday, October 16.
“We are talking about the creation of a fundamentally new class of ships that can be an alternative to traditional gas carriers, which in Arctic conditions are not capable of year-round navigation without icebreaker support ,” the agency pointed out.
The article quoted Mikhail Kovalchuk, director of the Kurchatov Institute, a Russian nuclear research center, where he said the idea was to reduce the sailing time from 20 to 12 days.
“The submarines will be able to carry about 180,000 tons of gas, which is comparable to a conventional Arc 7 ice-class gas carrier. The length of such submarines will be 360 meters and the width will not exceed 70 meters. They are equipped with RIT nuclear reactors to power their latest icebreakers, he said.
Russia already uses nuclear icebreakers to support gas transport along Russia’s Arctic coast from Murmansk in the west to the Bering Strait in the east, which Moscow sees as a faster alternative to the Suez Canal. However, Russia faces a shortage of ships capable of dealing with the thick Arctic ice.
Russian state corporation Gazprom has begun selling its luxury real estate. This is due to the record damage in the entire history of the company.
As we have already written, since the beginning of this year Gazprom has exported 5.7 billion cubic meters of gas to Hungary, which has already exceeded the amount imported last year.
Source: korrespondent
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