Arctic Submarine Tanker System

Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. has developed conceptual designs of nuclear submarine tanker systems for transporting oil from the Arctic North Slope to the U.S. east coast, with or without transshipment at a Norwegian port. Submarines of about 420,000 tons submerged displacement with capacity for 2 million bbl of oil, propelled by 120,000 shp nuclear steam generators, would travel at 20 knots at a nominal depth of 700 ft within...