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USS Enterprise heads out on final voyage
Norfolk, Va. - After 51 years of service, the USS Enterprise headed to Newport News Shipbuilding for the final time this morning. NewsChannel 3's Todd Corillo was the only television reporter onboard for the trip.Once at the shipyard the ship's nuclear fuel will be removed from its eight nuclear reactors. The move will mark the final voyage for the ship before the formal decommissioning, which will take place once the defueling process at Newport News Shipbuilding is complete. She is expected to stay in Newport News until 2016 when she will be towed to Puget Sound in Washington to be scrapped. Nearly 150 shipyard workers were present for the move as a last tribute to a vessel that many of the workers had a role in building. Same fate as the first Enterprise. Posted by: Deacon Blues 2013-06-20 |
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