[rottndog]

They may have to drydock her in Newport News, completely remove the rest of the ship first, leaving the engineering spaces intact, and then basically convert what's left into a giant seaworthy barge that they can tow over to Washington where it will be handled by the SRP. They will probably have to build a special drydock there just for that job.

I can't see them putting that anywhere else, and there is so much of it to move, I can't see them breaking it up and shipping the parts separately.

This is where they keep retired submarine reactors at Hanford:

[fredhead]

When I was on the Ike in Newport News shipyard back in 94 there was, in the drydock next to us, the hull of the nuclear cruiser USS Long Beach. Don’t know what happened to her nuclear plant.