The US Navy recently found traces of jet fuel in the water on board the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier.
Those laboratory tests, which were conducted several days after traces of jet fuel were initially detected in the ship's water, did not reveal any "measurable" amounts of hydrocarbons, highly-combustible jet fuel components, Ensign Bryan Blair, a Navy spokesperson, told Insider.
Navy Times reported that traces of jet fuel — also known as jet propellant-5 or simply JP-5— was originally found in the Nimitz's water system on September 16 while the ship was in the Pacific Ocean.
USS Nimitz Spokesman Lt. Cmdr.
The USS Nimitz was built by Newport News Shipbuilding and commissioned in 1975.