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Pentagon Washout. Another of Rickover's projects, a 60,000-kilowatt reactor for an airplane carrier, had a less happy outcome. Last spring, after two years of work had gone into it, Secretary of Defense Wilson canceled its "military requirement," and work on it slowed to a crawl...
Last week, in a momentous Chicago speech, AEC Commissioner Thomas E. Murray declared that the iron age of atomic energy may soon end. "The commission," said Murray, "has embarked on a program to construct a full-scale power reactor . . . We hope to have it in operation in three to four years...
Extraordinary Officer. Having come to this disquieting conclusion, AEC took stock of its reactor assets. It was not destitute. One of the atomic weapons that it had been developing was the nuclear-powered submarine, and at the head of this program was an extraordinary Navy officer, Rear Admiral Hyman George Rickover, 53, who had pushed it ahead with defiant tenacity and almost at the cost of his Navy career...
...purpose of the submarine is to wage war, but the problems of its power plant were like those of landbound plants. Materials had to be found that would not go to pieces in a reactor's heart. New instruments were needed, and new kinds of pumps, controls, heat-exchangers and safety devices. Rickover, then a captain, worked in a swarm of difficulties, opposed by many in the Navy. But he won his battle. On May 31, Commissioner Murray, with Rickover standing beside him, opened a valve at Arco, Idaho. A shaft began turning over, and the world...
...been revived by AEC, Pentagon or no Pentagon. The atomic power plant announced last week will be Rickover's half-finished carrier reactor. It will be built by Westinghouse Electric Corp., and Admiral Rickover will boss the job. Only by success in atomic power, Commissioner Murray made clear, can the U.S. continue its leadership in atomic peace as well as in atomic...