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To: B-Chan
(Well, at least Main Machinery Room #4 will. I know, because I lubed and painted a good deal of it...)

Er, was it pushing #1 and pulling 2 and 3?

27 posted on 11/09/2001 8:29:32 AM PST by hut1hut2
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To: hut1hut2
At the time I served in her, ENTERPRISE had eight nuclear reactors. Each RX drove four steam generators; eight steam generators each fed into the four Westinghouse turbine systems that drove the four screws that drove the ship. Each of the four turbines (and gearboxes) was located in a space called a Main Machinery Room. I worked in #4 MMR, port side amidships.

It's hot and noisy down there.

29 posted on 11/09/2001 8:35:50 AM PST by B-Chan
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