Example of yet another “study” whose options all reinforce the predetermined decision.
Once you specify “nuke propulsion” you’re making things very expensive. When the Navy runs one of these studies they always seem to confirm the wisdom of what they are currently doing. Imagine that?
What they need to do is pull an LHA/LHD from the Gator fleet and begin serious studies of unmanned drone aircraft. Start pushing the state of the art in order to create a new alternative. This is how the CV came into being in the interwar years.