[AR] Re: MSR reactors.
- From: Ed Kelleher <Pres@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 15:13:29 -0400
At 02:06 PM 7/13/2019, you wrote:
Rickover has a lot to answer for. At the end of Polmar&Moore's "Cold War
Submarines", they quote a Russian sub designer on how it was that the US's
huge lead in submarine technology steadily shrank, until the last Soviet
prototypes were pretty much the equal of the US's best: "We had competition
in submarine design. You had Stalinism!"
(Rickover not only crushed all submarine concepts rivaling his own, but on at
least a couple of occasions, he did his best to erase them completely from
history.)
"The evil that men do lives after them;The good is oft interred with their
bones.", William Shakespeare,
<
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/2796883>Julius Caesar
The gauge is not the technology. Rickover instituted procedures and designs
that could be operated and maintained, under all conditions, by enlisted
sailors; safely, effectively and repeatably (regular turnover in crews).
Practically all the enlisted instructors were enlisted themselves.
No nuclear accidents that I'm aware of.
Rocket relevance: A good safety culture goes a long way.
Ed Kelleher
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