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Politics : Military Strategy Board
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To: unclewest who wrote (1649)2/9/2014 10:58:43 PM
From: robert a belfer  Read Replies (3) of 20406
 
Surely there must be substantial parts of it that are NOT loaded with asbestos.

I had about 15 or 16 HS friends join the Navy together in summer 61. They joined on a buddy program and all served on the Forrestal and I heard lots about it before joining the army a few months after they left.

If memory serves the Forrestal was our 1st or one of the first nuclear powered ships. Eliminating those hazards are likely more expensive than the asbestos.
Not sure but I think the Navy removes the reactors and all the rad hazards before any other disposition.

Again I can not be sure but the only thing I recall we used asbestos for was to lag water pipes to prevent sweating. I say only but there is miles of piping in even a small ship. It runs along overheads and thru bulkheads like weeds in a tropical climate.

Not a lot of detail in Wikipedia but my last ship was a nuc so I looked it up. Doesn't look like we sold it for a penny.

en.wikipedia.org

" The ship conducted its final port visit in Charleston, South Carolina between 10 August and 14 August 1998. South Carolina was deactivated on 4 September 1998 The last of the crew left in July 1999, with the exception of a small contingent to escort her through the Panama Canal and to Bremerton, WA where she entered the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard on 1 October 1999. She was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 30 July 1999, and on 28 March 2000 ceased to exist.
Decommissioning and memorial[ edit]Presently she is drydocked at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard going through the process of being cut up. Her keel landed on the resting blocks in Drydock #3 in October 2007 to complete the process. In June 2009 her bow, which is 25 feet long, 18 feet wide and 16 feet high, was placed as part of the Puget Sound Memorial Plaza. [2] By April 2010, her nuclear reactor compartments had arrived, by barge via the Columbia River, to the Hanford Site (Hanford Nuclear Reservation) for long term storage. The reactor compartment is the 122nd to be received by Hanford from ex-US Navy ships and submarines. [3]"

Edit: Sorry uw, the Forrestal was not a nuc.
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