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Your neighbors down the road were key players in this, those guys around Pittsburgh. Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory is a key player in the game. Worked quite a bit with those guys as well as KAPL (Knolls in NY) and Oak Ridge in Tenn. The first nuclear carrier was the Enterprise CVN 65 and it was really an oddball even the original island structure but it was powered by eight small A2W (The A1W was the first prototype and never saw a ship) reactor plants similar to those used in the subs at the time. Then came CV66 and CV67 the Kennedy and America which were planned nuclear but with congress upset they ended up conventional. Then came the USS Nimitz the first of the super carrier Nimitz class and powered by two A4W (A = Aircraft Carrier 4 being the 4th generation of the reactor and W being Westinghouse the guys ultimately providing and delivering the end product.
I do know that BWXT my old parent just got another billion dollar contract and when I get my annual pension plan statements we are well funded so I am happy with that. Only issue may be that there may be a lot of EMP or RF interference with the avionics in the plane. Imaging launching the plane with a rail gun but all the electronics inside the plane crash or get fried...
OK, with the issue of a huge magnetic pulse. They were last I knew looking at forms of linear induction motors. My best guess since I only heard chatter and was not involved with anything launch system related would be shielding since everything which makes the sled go is below the steel flight deck. The only reason I had heard anything remotely associated with it was because the new reactor designs called for more power generating capability. Things like how much EMP could kill avionics never crossed my mind or methods to contain it also never crossed my mind. Headaches were distributed equally.
OK, with the issue of a huge magnetic pulse. They were last I knew looking at forms of linear induction motors. My best guess since I only heard chatter and was not involved with anything launch system related would be shielding since everything which makes the sled go is below the steel flight deck. The only reason I had heard anything remotely associated with it was because the new reactor designs called for more power generating capability. Things like how much EMP could kill avionics never crossed my mind or methods to contain it also never crossed my mind. Headaches were distributed equally.
You are right Beau. I just did not read all the posts before replying. I read down to about #4 and thought of the EMP issue. No intent to step on toes here.
Yes, interesting. Daughter born in North Carolina, US and son born in Naples, Italy.It sounds like you've had an interesting life though Ron
Yes, interesting. Daughter born in North Carolina, US and son born in Naples, Italy.
So they obviously asked what they meant, to be told he's a language tutor at Oxford, and could learn the lanuage in a couple of weeks if they wanted him to (he speaks various languages, including ancient ones).
While Michael has a US passport he could bring all his birth certificate documents to the Italian Consulate in NY or Chicago and apply for and obtain an Italian passport. When he was a kid I would tell him he faced conscription into the Italian Army.
) and is currently waiting for Dutch citizenship, I think it takes five years resident there if you're married to a Dutch person. I've told her to make sure she keeps her English passport up to date as well (she can use our address), so you've got the best of both worlds. As we're currently in the process of leaving the EU, there will be extra checks on EU citizens coming here, and UK citizens going there - so she could show her EU passport leaving the Netherlands, and then show her UK passport entering the UK
I remember using Air Italia Naples to London Heathrow was $69 USD and at that time the US dollar was strong. Life was good. Always loved going to GB then too, great people and great beer all in one trip. 
