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2022: Disposal of USS Enterprise
In late August 2022, a draft environmental impact report released by the U.S. Navy Department said the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, which has been heavily involved in conflicts from the Cold War to the global war on terrorism, would be disposed of at a commercial shipyard. However, the report does not say where this could happen, although some conventional aircraft carriers have been disposed of in Texas.
USA The report said the Navy wants to reduce the inventory of inactive ships, reduce the cost of maintaining them, properly dispose of radiological and hazardous waste and still meet the service's operational needs. In addition, the authors of the publication emphasized that Enterprise is the world's largest nuclear aircraft carrier, which largely complicates the disposal of the vessel.
According to an authoritative publication, a private company will be engaged in the disposal of a nuclear aircraft carrier. At the same time, it was originally planned to disassemble the ship exclusively at the government shipyard, but this decision was unprofitable for the American authorities. The Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility (PSNS&IMF) in Washington state has historically been involved in the disposal of nuclear ships, but a spokesman for Naval Sea Systems Command previously told the Insider that other work could delay this process for years.
According to the newspaper The Kitsap Sun, which first reported these plans, the shipyard in Bremerton may begin work on the disposal of the former nuclear aircraft carrier only in 2030-2040. In its new draft report, the Navy said the commercial shipyard could complete the dismantling process faster and at a lower cost.
The former USS Enterprise ship was commissioned in 1961 at Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia and served for more than 50 years until it was deactivated in 2012 and decommissioned in 2017. Since the beginning of 2018, the US Navy has begun weighing the best way to dismantle the ship and its eight onboard nuclear reactors.[1]
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