Why is Los Angeles class sub being mothballed?
Probably to make room for the Virginia-class boats coming in....
...but of course, I could very well be "off course".
When they're off to Bremerton it's not to be mothballed. They run NPSSRP (Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program) there and they defuel it, cut the reactor compartment out, ship it for burial to Idaho and cut up the rest for scrap.
I don't know.
Why don't they give it as a present to our friends in Taiwan? Better to have it watching the Commies than sitting in mothballs.