The U.S. Navy Is Having a Hell of a Time Dismantling the USS Enterprise

Popular Mechanics ^ | 8/9/18 | Kyle Mizokami

[editor-surveyor]

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The budget is hiding in Algore’s Lock Box.
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[Tenacious 1]

What?

Scuttle her over the Marianas Trench.

Is it any surprise that THAT ship refuses to be destroyed? The name alone speaks of a heritage that says, “Bring it, Bro!”

[AndyJackson]

Let us know how that works out.

[IronJack]

Is the reactor still usable? Not necessarily in a naval vessel but for any other purpose?

[shotgun]

They removed the nuclear fuel so the remainder is contaminated rust/sludge inside the piping system. I say the reactor compartment out to sea and dump it somewhere deep.

[blueunicorn6]

I’ve asked you and asked you to please stop posting videos on Free Republic from my family reunion.

[Celtic Conservative]

*cough* laurentian abyssal *cough*

Cc

[Figment]

“Imagine putting seats on the catapults and shooting teenagers into the sea!”

I think you’re onto something here. That could work

[PeterPrinciple]

Here is a list of nuclear powered commercial ships.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_marine_propulsion#Civilian_nuclear_ships

Maybe Russia has some ideas?

[Billthedrill]

I say the reactor compartment out to sea and dump it somewhere deep.

We can't do that anymore since the 1972 London Dumping Convention. These days we take the reactor vessels to Hanford and bury them.

[Carriage Hill]

Strap the propulsion system to a Saturn V rocket, and shoot it into the sun.

[Celtic Conservative]

The Russian idea is to let their decommissioned nuclear ships sink at their piers.

CC

[null and void]

If scrapped, it would end up as Chinese cars.

Which, like the post Fukushima cars, we won't check for radiation at the ports of entry...

[Mariner]

“thirty-year investments”

50 years active duty

[Buckeye McFrog]

The Russian idea is to let their decommissioned nuclear ships sink at their piers.

Seriously. Sneak the Enterprise into Vladivostok Harbor and scuttle her there. Who would notice?

[DannyTN]

"Captain, they're tearing her apart!!!"

[bigbob]

Give it to John McCain, he’ll wreck it within a week.

[Centurion2000]

Tow it out to Point Nemo with a pack of hunter killer submarines and have them torpedo it and hit it with the latest weapons until it sinks into the a few miles of water.

As it passes 10,000 feet detonate a 1MT fusion bomb to scatter the parts and render analysis impossible.

[TheBattman]

That makes WAY too much sense! When the cost of salvage/recycling so far exceeds the value of the materials reclaimed - it no longer makes sense to recycle. Pull the nuke plant, then use her for a target where you want a reef.

[Kommodor]

Eek!