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Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power
2014 · Film · documentary · 116 min
Directed by Michael Pack
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, then-Captain Rickover harnessed the power of the atom to drive the first nuclear-powered 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 world's first nuclear aircraft carrier and the first commercial nuclear power plant at Shippingport, PA. Rickover's achievements made him into a national celebrity, and he appeared on the cover of Time magazine. Many wonder whether America can maintain its technological pre-eminence and whether we can still build and manage large-scale 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.
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> Hyman Rickover<snip>only has a low budget 2021 documentary
Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power (2014) www.imdb.com/title/tt3717180/
I tried to sit through this one, but it was such a chore to watch.
There is a great documentary on Amazon called Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power
People on the show attribute the success of the team he built because he hired for potential. His quote was something to the effect of that all good people already have jobs.