Smeagol666 9 points 12 hours ago

A former coworker was stationed on the Enterprise. It had 8 nuclear reactors and apparently it's top speed was classified. Newer aircraft carriers only have 3 reactors.

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Successful_Try543 7 points 12 hours ago

Newer aircraft carriers only have 3 reactors.

The information I could find on Wikipedia is that USS Nimitz and USS Gerald Ford both have 2 reactors (each 550 MW and 700 MW, respectively). The USS Enerprise had 8 reactors with 150 MW each. So their total power was in the same range while each being much smaller.

The maximum powers used for propulsion are 210 MW (Enterprise), 208 MW (Nimitz), and 260 MW (Ford).

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Smeagol666 4 points 11 hours ago

OK, cool.

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wjrii 3 points 9 hours ago

Also, this is the prior Enterprise, from WW2.

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call_me_xale 3 points 11 hours ago

That's a lotta hot rocks!

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teft 1 point 2 hours ago

This is CV-6, not CVN-65 which was the next version built a few years later. N means the next version was nuclear (in fact it was the first nuclear carrier). This one wasn’t nuclear.

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kalpol 2 points 7 hours ago

Of all the museum carriers we kept, Enterpriseshould have been it instead. Such a shame

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teft 1 point 2 hours ago

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