“Go back to conventional CVs. Build two for the price of one and crew training is easier. Tell me damage control is not easier on a conventional ship as opposed to an exotic nuclear one. Go on, try to tell me that whopper.”
Having served on a nuclear carrier as part of a damage control evaluation team I find your post uninformed.
True, I have only been trained in damage control on FF and DD platform but it seems to me the slightest damage in an engineering space on a CVN would cause a immediate reactor scram.
Conventional carriers need huge fuel bunkers. Nuclear carriers don’t. Plus modern aircraft use jet fuel which is far less flammable than avgas. You can throw cigarette butts into a bucket of jp4 and it won’t ignite. This is just for starters. Fire destroyed many ships in WW2. Modern carriers have much lower fire risk. And top notch damage control tech.