Nuclear Machinery Space Layouts

[RyanC]

Abraham Gubler made this post a while back HERE

Here is the SCB deck layout drawing of the DLG Typhoon as planned for production. This is to my knowledge the only released image by the US Navy of the interior layout of a nuclear powered surface vessel. So provides an insight into the interior layout of any such ship.

I think I can now figure out where what goes where thanks to a Russian monograph Морская коллекция №8 2006 - Атомный авианосец Enterprise, with a inboard profile. I used my OCR software to scan in the text and ran it through google translate and babelfish.

There is also this unrelated image whose source I have not been able to identify which gives some reactor dimensions and weights.

Another source is a photo of a Nimitz under construction which was released at Northrop Grumman's website, and posted over in THIS thread.

 

[Madurai]

"Mines for the overloading of the reactor core" is a much cooler term than "Core removal compartment." Maybe NR would consider changing nomenclature.