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ATOM POWER PLANT for first nuclear-powered merchant ship will be built by Babcock & Wilcox Co. To get AEC contract, the company beat out General Electric, Westinghouse and others. Reactor will be advanced model of thermal type used by atom submarine Nautilus...
FIRST ATOMIC FREIGHTER will probably be launched by the U.S. by 1959. Maritime Administration has not yet decided whether to power the $40 million experimental ship with an obsolescent, Nautilus-type reactor or design a more advanced atomic plant suitable for merchantmen...
...Start in "Siberia." In terms of the new, atomic-age thinking, the Navy's revolution reached its most dramatic stage with Nautilus. After World War II and a brilliant and imaginative performance on the sea and in the air, the Navy turned slowly to the military potential of the atom. While the Air Force and its Strategic Air Command took over an urgent proprietorship in the atomic age, the Navy fought stoutly to preserve its great fleet, to keep a maximum of ships at sea. It fought the Air Force concept of long-range nuclear retaliation as immoral...
...already the challenges of the new age were being met. In late 1950, in a storage shack nicknamed "Siberia" in a shipyard in Groton, Conn., Nautilus began to take shape under the intense, sometimes ruthless direction of Captain Hyman Rickover. Some of the salt-encrusted admirals had sneered at Rickover's folly and his obstreperous methods, obstructed him for five long and crucial years, tried to break up his team and even to get him tossed out of the Navy. It remained for Arleigh Burke, Chief of Naval Operations since last August, to realize fully what Nautilus meant...
...Nuclear Fleet. At his Pentagon desk, Burke smacks the dottle from his pipe against his heavy Annapolis ring, looks far beyond today's Navy and sees Nautilus as the forerunner of the all nuclear fleet. Burke's Navy no longer makes conventional submarines: the atomic Sea Wolf is ready for commission, seven more A-subs are under construction or authorized, another six are scheduled in the budget now before Congress. That budget makes a pair of historic requests: one is for a construction start on the first nuclear-powered surface vessel, a missile cruiser of about...