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Westinghouse Electric Corp., whose defense projects account for 20% of its sales, brings its nuclear reactor prowess (Nautilus, Seawolf) to use on Nerva, the first atomic rocket, and SNAP, atomic-generated power for satellites...
Eight years after Navy brass tried to push him into premature retirement, Vice Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, father of the atomic submarine, was summoned to the deck of the Nautilus, his first nuclear offspring, to receive the Distinguished Service Medal, highest peacetime award in the Navy's gift. In the six years since Nautilus was commissioned, Rickover's atomic family has grown fast: last week's medal-pinning ceremony was coupled with the keel laying of the Lafayette, 34th ship in the nation's awesomely lethal nuclear underseas fleet...
GROTON, Conn., Jan. 17--Vice Adm. Hyman G. Rickover stood on the bridge of the submarine Nautilus as she first sailed under nuclear power six years...
With 16 atomic submarines in service, Rickover stood again on the Nautilus today--the sailing's sixth anniversary--and received the Navy's highest peacetime decoration, the Distinguished Service Medal...
When the submarine Nautilus in Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea needed a new air supply, it came to the surface, blew noisily like a winded whale and filled its reservoirs with two days' supply of compressed air. This simple system was good enough for the imaginary Nautilus of 1870, but the real SS(N) Nautilus and her nuclear sisters of the modern U.S. Navy need better air, and are designed to stay submerged for months on end. In Naval Research Reviews the Naval Research Laboratory tells how their little worlds are kept almost...