The Ship-Submarine Recycling Program is the process that the United States Navy uses to dispose of decommissioned nuclear vessels. SRP takes place only at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton,
In this image, the superstructure of Virginia has been replaced with containment structures to remove nuclear fuel before entering SRP.
Enterprise under tow to Newport News Shipbuilding to begin the defuelling process in June 2013
The hull of Long Beach moored at Puget Sound awaiting disposal in March 2011
A total of sixteen decommissioned SSNs and SSBNs moored awaiting their fate at Puget Sound in May 1993
USS Miami was a Los Angeles-class submarine of the United States Navy. She was the third vessel of the U.S. Navy to be named after Miami, Florida. Miami was the forty-fourth Los Angeles-class submarin
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USS Miami moored to a Port Everglades pier in April 2004.
Miami enters dry dock at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on 15 March 2012 to begin an engineering overhaul. She was severely damaged by fire two months later.
Tugboats maneuver Miami into a berth at Port Everglades, Florida on 17 July 1993.
A bow-on view looking down on Miami in the auxiliary medium repair dock Shippingport (ARDM-4) during a routine hull inspection at Naval Submarine Base New London. (16 March 1994)