She over due a deserved retirement as it is. She a Nuke/Steamer. That means the nuclear reactor heats water & generates steam about 1200 PSI worth of super heated steam. That pressure the size of a pencil lead can dismember you and you'd never know the leak was there. She was built after Constellation CVA/CV-64 {decomissioned conventional} and followed by conventionals America CVA/CV- 66 & Kennedy CV-67 both decomissioned.
reactors and steam boilers can be replaced... the big E is as much a symbol for American military leadership and pride for the people as it is a mobile naval air platform delivering death to America’s enemies...