The USS Enterprise (CVN-65) is the first nuclear powered aircraft carrier to serve in the United States Navy. Ordered in November 1957, the keel of the company was established in the Newport News Shipbuilding Drydock Company and in February 1958. Launched in September 1960, the company was commissioned on active duty in November 1961.
As the leading First of nuclear-powered carrier fleet, the Company's disposal of reactor is very conservative, and the company, which is the hull design is actually a modification of the carrier-class Forest is the only nuclear-powered ship reactor equipped with eight individual (the Nimitz class carriers are equipped with two reactors), essentially replacing the boiler reactors for a one-on-one. Although the reactors, compared to larger units in more modern vehicles, were relatively small, with eight of them provided the company with the ability to go "full steam" almost immediately, allowing the carrier 93,000 tons to accelerate out escort destroyers were a fraction of its size.
