Naval Reactors
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Naval Reactors, which administers the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, is an umbrella term for the U.S. government office that has comprehensive responsibility for the safe and reliable operation of
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Hyman G. Rickover
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Hyman George Rickover was an admiral in the United States Navy. He directed the original development of naval nuclear propulsion and controlled its operations for three decades as director of the U.S.
Naval Reactors
…civilians to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, to study the potential of using nuclear energy to power ships. The Navy group organized themselves under then Captain Rickover and embraced Philip Abelson's concept of a nuclear-powered submarine. The consensus of the group was that the technical difficulties could be overcome…
Admiral Rickover aboard USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear-powered vessel. "I did not recruit extraordinary people. I recruited people who had extraordinary potential—and then I trained them"
President Kennedy and Rickover, White House, 11 February 1963 "...in addition to the multilateral POLARIS force, we discussed education and how he and I were brought up as boys"
Headstone of Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, Arlington National Cemetery