by Sabina Zawadzki (Reuters)– Russian gas manufacturer Novatek wishes to utilize nuclear icebreakers to maintain the Northern Sea Route, a delivery course going across the Arctic to Asia, open all year wish for its melted gas (LNG), a magnate claimed on Wednesday.

“Our plan is to keep the Northern Sea Route open twelve months a year in 2023 to 25 with 100-megawatt-hour nuclear icebreakers,” Novatek Chief Financial Officer Mark Gyetvay informed delegates at a power meeting.

Novatek runs the Yamal LNG centers in Russia’s Arctic north, which have actually currently generated 11 million tonnes of LNG because beginning manufacturing in December 2017.

Reporting by Ekaterina Kravtsova; creating by Sabina Zawadzki; Editing by Kirsten Donovan