ShipyardThursday, November 5
The former USS Enterprise has left Newport News for Mobile, where it will be dismantled
The Daily Newport News team
The Big E has left Newport News. The Navy's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier left Newport News Shipbuilding on Monday for Mobile, Alabama, where contractors will take her apart.
The Big E's trip to the scrapyard runs through 2030
- July 2026The Navy awards NorthStar a $418.5 million dismantling contract.
- Nov. 2The Enterprise leaves Newport News Shipbuilding for Mobile, Alabama.
- Nov. 13The Enterprise is expected to arrive in Mobile, around this time.
- 2030Disposal operations are scheduled to be complete.
Sources: WVEC, Business Insider Africa
Business Insider Africa reports that the Navy's retirement and disposal program has exceeded $1.3 billion. That covers inactivation, storage and dismantling. NorthStar Maritime Dismantlement Services will do the work at its Mobile facility.
- Entered service: Nov. 25, 1961, as the first nuclear-powered carrier
- Distance sailed: more than one million nautical miles
- First combat: Dec. 2, 1965, during the Vietnam War
Nuclear fuel is out of her eight reactors, but some remaining components contain radioactive materials. NorthStar will recover recyclable materials, and radioactive and other hazardous waste will go to licensed facilities.
The Big E's retirement comes with big numbers
- $1.3 billion
- is a mark the Navy's retirement and disposal program has exceeded
- $418.5 million
- for NorthStar's contract to dismantle her in Mobile
- 8
- reactors, with the nuclear fuel removed
Source: Business Insider Africa
Sources: WVEC, Business Insider Africa