Nuclear escort trade-offs in a carrier group

Would a nuclear-powered Burke reduce carrier-group logistics enough to justify the dockyard and personnel burden?

Only in a specialized carrier-escort role, where sustained speed and range can outweigh concentrated maintenance and nuclear-engineering costs.

Nuclear propulsion leaves many fleet logistics in place and can concentrate maintenance in fewer dockyards while increasing demand for specialist personnel. Its strongest case is a carrier group that needs surface escorts able to match a nuclear carrier's sustained speed and inter-theatre range. A nuclear submarine cannot replace those escorts across the threat set. At high speed it becomes easier to detect, and opposing submarines may hear it before it reaches an effective position. Nuclear power therefore suits this demanding escort mission rather than wholesale replacement of conventional destroyers.