The US Navy Aircraft Carrier USS Enterprise Has 8 Nuclear Reactors. Every Carrier Built Since Has Had 2. And Now She Needs to Be Scrapped

Construction on the USS Enterprise began in 1958, and she needed eight nuclear reactors because that was what the technology of the time could deliver. Every Nimitz-class carrier that followed needed two. The Ford class also needs two, of a significantly newer and higher-output design. Nobody has ever dismantled a carrier with eight.