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It's really all the same, just bigger and better. For example, there is no carrier training plant so we all learn subs and then spend 4-6mo on the carrier learning those systems. They're the same, just bigger and with more redundancy because there is room and you can.
Operationally, a reactor is a reactor, but you can't qualify to qualify until you can draw every system to at least 80% so it takes some time to do so. I could probably still draw a good bit of it out if I had to just because it was rammed into my head so hard.
Another good, but totally different example is the engine rooms on WWII battleships are basically the same as the nuclear aircraft carriers, just a bit smaller. When we toured the Alabama I could explain the function of every component in the engine room. I was worthless in the boiler room though!
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