Interesting that the French are having so much trouble with the engines, considering something like 70% of France's electricity is provided by nuclear power plants. They know how to build them and get power, I wonder what's plaguing them on the CDG.
Well, like I'd said with the USS Oregon City, sometimes a ship just has trouble that can't be explained. That ship was the first of her class, but her sisters worked fine (and were in fact converted to missile cruisers, while OC was retired within two years of completion and scrapped), and the class was little more than a sub-class of the Baltimores, of which the Americans completed quite a few. In this one odd case though, what should have been 'same ol' tunes' for the shipyard ended up just never really working right. Whether that's the case for de Gaulle or not is hard to say, being a one-ship class, but it's worth noting that none of their nuclear-powered subs have had any major problems that I'm aware of, anyway. They clearly know what they're doing in a broad sense at least- just in this particular case, it's not panning out.
Note that even a refit at Norfolk several years ago didn't resolve the problems, which means even American engineers (who certainly know nuclear carriers by now!) were left scratching their heads. Maybe the current refit will finally resolve things, who knows?
And another photo because I hate posting in here without leaving one, here she is in company with USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.