Enterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, could become the first Navy vessel of its kind to be scrapped by a commercial breaker - if the Pentagon gets its way. The Puget Sound Naval Shipyard pointed Navy Times to a website that outlines four potential plans to finally dispose of the Big E, a warship that faithfully served the fleet for 51 years before it was deactivated in 2012. Five years and $750 million later, workers had siphoned out the flattop's nuclear fuel and the Navy decommissioned it. Now it's just a rusting hulk tied up at the Huntington Ingalls Newport News shipyard.
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