The United States will dismantle the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, and a company has been awarded five hundred million dollars for the dismantling process.

The world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier will be dismantled in Alabama. Reports say that a company in Vermont has been awarded over $500 million in funding to dismantle a historically significant aircraft carrier. According to a procurement notice released by the Pentagon on May 30, the North Star Maritime Disposal Services, located in Vernon, Vermont, has been awarded a fixed-price contract for the "dismantling, recycling, and disposal" of the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier. The Enterprise, which entered service in the US Navy in 1961, was the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and was decommissioned in 2012.