Russia has begun designing nuclear-powered submarines to extract liquefied natural gas

A senior state official said Russia has begun planning nuclear-powered submarines to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Arctic to Asia in a bid to reduce travel time via the Northern Sea Route (NSR) Russia already uses nuclear-powered icebreakers that are able to break up the Arctic ice, to pave the way for such transport via the Northern Sea Route, which runs along Russia’s Arctic coast from Murmansk in the west to the Bering Strait in the east, a route that Moscow sees as a faster alternative to the Suez Canal and plans to develop. But Russia is suffering from a shortage of ships that can break through the thick Arctic ice, a hurdle for the new Arctic LNG 2 project, which is subject to sanctions from the United States over the war in Ukraine. The presentation of the project The Arctic LNG 2 unit started its production […]
Source: News Beast

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