{"id":96,"date":"2017-09-14T22:28:02","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T02:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sawe.org\/hamptonroads\/?p=96"},"modified":"2017-09-14T22:28:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T02:28:02","slug":"cvn-73-arrives-at-nns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sawe.org\/chapters\/hamptonroads\/2017\/09\/14\/cvn-73-arrives-at-nns\/","title":{"rendered":"CVN 73 Arrives at NNS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newport News Shipbuilding is one of the oldest shipyards in America at over 130 years old! \u00a0Located along the James River in Virginia, it is the sole facility that can build, overhaul\/refuel and decommission nuclear powered aircraft carriers. \u00a0Halfway through an aircraft carriers 50 year lifespan, it comes back to Newport News Shipbuilding for a multi-year overhaul where it is repaired, upgraded, updated with the latest technology, and its nuclear reactors refueled. \u00a0The \u00a0Nimitz-Class carrier,\u00a0<i>USS George Washington<\/i>(CVN 73), has just arrived to begin this process. \u00a0The video shows the ship being lead across the river from Naval Station Norfolk to the dry docks at Newport News Shipbuilding. Hampton Roads SAWE members will be monitoring weight changes throughout the ship&#8217;s overhaul in order to guarantee her stability over the 25 years of her service.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"USS George Washington (CVN 73) Arrives at Newport News Shipbuilding\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KlLXAFi64RI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newport News Shipbuilding is one of the oldest shipyards in America at over 130 years old! \u00a0Located along the James River in Virginia, it is the sole facility that can build, overhaul\/refuel and decommission nuclear powered aircraft carriers. \u00a0Halfway through an aircraft carriers 50 year lifespan, it comes back to Newport News Shipbuilding for a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sawe.org\/chapters\/hamptonroads\/2017\/09\/14\/cvn-73-arrives-at-nns\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CVN 73 Arrives at NNS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sawe.org\/chapters\/hamptonroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sawe.org\/chapters\/hamptonroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sawe.org\/chapters\/hamptonroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sawe.org\/chapters\/hamptonroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sawe.org\/chapters\/hamptonroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sawe.org\/chapters\/hamptonroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sawe.org\/chapters\/hamptonroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sawe.org\/chapters\/hamptonroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sawe.org\/chapters\/hamptonroads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}