Rickover The Birth of Nuclear Power (2014)

Dive into the life of the father of the nuclear Navy Hyman Rickover Combative provocative and blunt Admiral Hyman G Rickover was a flamboyant maverick and a unique American hero When few thought it possible thenCaptain Rickover harnessed the power of the atom to drive the first nuclearpowered submarine the USS Nautilus whose trip under the polar ice pack was one of the great adventure stories of the 1950s Later Rickover built the worlds first nuclear aircraft carrier and the first commercial nuclear power plant at Shippingport PA Rickovers achievements made him into a national celebrity and he appeared on the cover of Time magazine Many wonder whether America can maintain its technological preeminence and whether we can still build and manage largescale projects To understand these issues Rickover considers the story of the man who created the nuclear Navy as well as the civilian nuclear power industry Hyman G Rickover