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Russia Plans to Raise Two Sunken Nuclear Submarines
- On October 18, Russia plans to begin preparations in 2026 to raise two Soviet-era nuclear submarines from Arctic waters, RBC reported, with recovery work scheduled for 2027.
- Budget documents cited by RBC place the recovery inside a wider atomic-energy and cleanup initiative, with renewed inclusion in the 2026 federal budget marking the first concrete step since 2012 toward removing radioactive wrecks from the Arctic seabed.
- The wreck of K-27 sits at about 75 meters in the Kara Sea and hosted experimental liquid-metal cooled reactors using a lead-bismuth alloy, while Soviet submarine K-159 rests at approximately 250 meters in the Barents Sea after sinking in 2003 with nine crew members dead.
- Facing years of postponements, officials cited lack of specialized equipment, qualified personnel and safety constraints, while Rosatom's 2021 estimate put costs at around 24.4 billion rubles with earmarks for 2026–2028.
- Targeting K-27 and K-159 positions the operation within a wider effort to remove two of seven sunken Soviet nuclear submarines and rehabilitate contaminated Arctic sea areas.
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Total News Sources17
Leaning Left4Leaning Right3Center4Last UpdatedBias Distribution37% Left, 36% Center
Bias Distribution
- 37% of the sources lean Left, 36% of the sources are Center
37% Left
L 37%
C 36%
R 27%
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