Years after it had been decommissioned, the U.S. Navy has declared the ultimate fate of the world’s first-ever nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.
USS Enterprise (CVN-65), formerly CVA(N)-65 is going to be dismantled and then, disposed of with commercial industry at one of three likely locations: Newport News in Virginia; Brownsville in Texas; or Mobile in Alabama.
The Navy mentioned that the commercial firms would be responsible for dismantling the vessel’s defueled reactor plants and for...