Im sure people would want to make nuclear powered submarine to be larger than diesel-electric ones.
For one nuclear sub is solely dependent on food supplies that they can stow aboard their sub hence the need of larger space and because they're expected to be deployed longer than diesel equivalent they naturally need to stow more torpedoes and weapons.
So that pic in most probability would not be a nuclear powered submarine. Looking at the small size it's clearly intended as a tactical submarine instead.
Either a Kilo copy or a hybrid Lada-Kilo copy or simply a much improved Kilo design. Chinese electronics are getting much better surely now.
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