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No, it was not the 2nd nuclear powered vessel ever, nor was she the first nuclear surface vessel. USS Long Beach was ordered, designed, and laid down before her. Rickover somewhat screwed over both ships by insisting on using larger numbers of reactors than they actually needed, causing them...

Actually, the CVN-65 design was not all that good from the get go, all it was was a repeat of the previous conventional carrier with nuclear reactors replacing the boilers (is why it had eight of them). It had far too much power, to the point that to my knowledge they were never able to run her...