The PC expansion is designed to accommodate the current, and next generation of ultra-large container ships. Will our nuclear carriers now be able to transit the new canal?
good question, and I don’t know. That would take a large canal.
The waterline dimensions would say yes.....flight deck would overhang the lock walls so it would have some transit restrictions. Passing through Culebra would be touchy as well.
Since we base them on both coasts, I would say it would have to be a very pressing need for us to send a Nimitz through Panama.