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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Shipyard will play role in disposing of first aircraft carrier reactors

USS Enterprise (CVN 65)Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility will swap aircraft carriers in a couple of months, and some groundbreaking work is planned on a third one.

The Navy announced Friday that it has prepared a draft environmental assessment on disposing defueled reactor plants from the USS Enterprise.

That's never been done. Enterprise, the Navy's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and its oldest operating ship, was commissioned in 1961. It's useful life will end in 2012.

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