Diesel

This is the North Carolina's diesel engine, which is an emergency generator of power if the nuclear reactor stops working and the battery banks aren't producing enough power as backup.

Click here to read the related story on the Virginia class nuclear submarine, the North Carolina. And click here to check out the entire Road Trip 2010 package.

July 19, 2010 4:00 AM PDT

Photo by: Daniel Terdiman/CNET

| Caption by: Daniel Terdiman

 

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