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Navy accepts Bush after debris caused delay

The Navy took delivery of the carrier George H.W. Bush on Monday, more than two weeks after the discovery of debris in the ship’s emergency diesel generators stopped the service from taking final ownership of the $6.26 billion flattop.

Alan Baribeau, a spokesman for Naval Sea Systems Command, did not immediately have information about what kind of work shipbuilder Northrop Grumman had done to resolve the problems with the generators, nor how much it had cost. Inspectors found the problems after the Bush returned from its acceptance trials April 10; the Navy announced April 24 it wouldn’t take delivery of the ship until they were fixed.

The carrier is powered by two nuclear reactors, but it would use its emergency diesel generators for backup power in case the reactors went offline. It is the 10th and final Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, as well as the last U.S. carrier designed from the keel up with steam-powered catapults to launch its aircraft.

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