Although Russia is allocating a large part of its economic resources to fight in the ukrainian war (even doing so), the country also you are allowing yourself to spend money on other kinds of work.
In this sense, one of the most striking projects is the millionaire plan that the country chaired by Vladimir Putin is going to carry out to rescue two Soviet nuclear weapons that are sunken on the seabed.
Specifically, the two submersibles that will be returned to the surface are the submarine K-27 (sunk in 1981) and submarine K-159 (sunk in 2003). It should be noted that the task has been planned for a decade.
The most complicated rescue from a technical point of view will be that of the submarine K-159which is found sunk in the Barents Sea to one depth of nothing more and nothing less than 170 metros.
It will be less difficult (although not easy) for the Russian authorities to recover the submarine K-27. It is located at a depth of approximately 20 metros in it Kara Sea.
The Russian State Nuclear Energy Corporation Rosatom (competent when dealing with nuclear submarines) has refused to detail what the amount that will be allocated will be to the rescue of the two submersibles.
Nevertheless, In 2021, Rosatom itself estimated that bringing nuclear submarines back to the surface would cost around about 24 billion rubles (almost 258 million eurosat the current exchange rate).
In the budget item enabled for the recovery of the two submarines, it is explained that the money is intended for “a set of process measures to guarantee the safe management of federal radioactive waste and the safe removal of nuclear heritage and radiation risk sites.
