[puppypusher]

Not that I’m a naval systems mechanic but the Nimitz is a nuke boat why would she need Asbestos to protect the interior of her reactors?They operate on a totally different principle.

[Delhi Rebels]

Not that I’m a naval systems mechanic but the Nimitz is a nuke boat why would she need Asbestos to protect the interior of her reactors?They operate on a totally different principle.

They still use boilers. The difference between nuclear carriers and conventionally powered carriers is that nukes use the reactor to create the heat to generate steam in the boilers and conventional carriers use oil.

[CPOSharky]

Not that I’m a naval systems mechanic but the Nimitz is a nuke boat why would she need Asbestos to protect the interior of her reactors?They operate on a totally different principle.

The reactors are used to make superheated steam just like the oil powered ships.

How did you think the reactors turned the propellers?

[Erasmus]

A nuclear reactor is just another kind of boiler, with admittedly a few extra quirks of its own. It generates steam for turbines too, although there is no place in a nuke that gets as hot as an open flame (except for Chernobyl, that is).

So it’s still important to insulate a reactor and its steam lines, especially one used in a confined space like a ship or a sub.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

On the Russian boat it was used to insulate the boilers, to keep the steam hot and the ship a bit cooler. Nuclear reactors have boilers, too. I have no idea how they insulated, though I did spend waste two weeks in the Newport News ship building facility. (Representing the sensors IPT. Long story.)