The U.S. nuclear navy, created by Admiral Hyman Rickover, was an astonishing bureaucratic and cultural revolution in modern military history. Rickover’s belief in superior engineering, continuous ...

The NR-1 was one of the most unusual submarines ever built by the U.S. Navy. Designed under Admiral Rickover’s direction, the tiny nuclear submarine was built for deep-sea intelligence missions, ...

While submarines are generally named for states and cities, the US Navy has named a few for people. One of these remarkable individuals was Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, a Jewish Chicagoan who has had ...

Built under Admiral Hyman G. Rickover outside normal Navy oversight, NR-1 was a deep submergence nuclear submarine presented ...

In the first part of this "Historically Speaking" series, the role of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s support for the U.S. Navy was featured. Now, we will look at the roles of the K-25 Gaseous ...

Deep beneath the surface, Petty Officer 1st Class Barrett Long, a native of Summerville, plays a role in defending the United States. Long, who graduated from Fort Dorchester High School in 2018, ...

America’s Sagebrush Navy explores the creation of the Nuclear Navy in the desert of Idaho. In the late 1940’s, Captain Hyman G. Rickover oversaw the creation of three prototype reactors in Idaho.

HFIR reactor operators working from a motorized bridge use hand tools that are 30 feet long to work on the reactor core submerged in a pool 17 feet deep. Veterans of the U.S. Navy’s Nuclear Propulsion ...