Re: Rickover and NR

[JMUCKERHEIDE@delphi.com]

Interest in Rickover and the technical underpinnings of things-nuclear in the
Navy and elsewhere are addressed in "The Rickover Effect" by Ted Rockwell
(Rickover's Technical Director, and the developer and author of the "Reactor
Shielding Design Manual", the well-worn 'bible' for we working radiological
analysts and design engineers in the late 60s - 70s.)  

Ted is great and still going strong in the DC area (I suspect the radsafe
volume was too much for him  :-)  but he is active on other forums. 

Regards, Jim Muckerheide
jmuckerheide@delphi.com
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> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 13:00:13 -0500
> From: Dan Burnfield <DANB@DNFSB.GOV>
> Subject: Re: Rickover and NR
> Sender: radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
> 
> Lots of Mis-information floating about on the subject of
> Rickover and Naval Reactors.  This is just to correct a few of
> the minor errors I happened to see.
> 
> 1) Rickover retired from the Navy in 1982.  That means that
> RR was at the helm of the country.
> 
> 2) Rickover died in 1986 or four years after he retired.  In the
> mean time he worked with the Rickover institute as well as
> performing other valuable tasks.  He did not let the loss of his
> job stop him; he kept busy. 
> 
> 3) The change of command from Rickover to McKee was
> orderly and went well.  However, McKee was not as
> demanding as Rickover and many people consider  the
> technical capability of the organization diminished after
> Rickover's departure.
> 
> I am sorry if this is off topic Melissa.