The Rickover Effect: How One Man Made a Difference, Naval Institute Press hardback, 1992. Chinese language edition, 1994. John Wiley paperback, 1995. Now available from the Authors Guild backinprint program through iUniverse. Reader's Digest Chinese and Korean edition excerpts THE RICKOVER EFFECT
CONTENTS Preface Acknowledgments Foreword by Admiral James D. Watkins, USN (ret.) Prologue: The Public Rickover Part I: Getting Ready (1939-1947) Part II: Building a Decisive Weapon (1947-1952) Part III: Putting the Atom to Work (1950-1957) Part IV: Upgrading the Quality of U.S. Industry (1955-1960) Part V: Proclaiming the Need for Excellence (1959-64) Part VI: Extending the Rickover Effect (1964-1986) Epilogue Index Supplement: A. The First Fifteen Years: Naval Reactors Technical Personnel B. Naval Reactors Supply Corps Personnel C. Naval Reactors Civil Engineer Corps Personnel D. Naval Reactors WAVE Officer Personnel Part I: Getting Ready (1939-1947) Frontier Life among the Atom Splitters Starting Work in the Secret City I Meet Captain Rickover Rickover Revealed Coming to America and Getting Started The Naval Academy Years Engineering Duty on the La Vallette and Nevada Graduate Work at the Academy and at Columbia University Submarine School and Sea Duty on the S-48 At the Office of the Inspector of Naval Material Engineering Duty on the New Mexico Command of the Finch Duty in the Philippines Buildup of the Electrical Section, Bureau of Ships Mechanicsburg and Okinawa Mothballing the Pacific Fleet Extending the Effect: Manufacturers Assignment to Oak Ridge Roddis Gets the Word at Bikini Dick and Dunford Join the Team Formulating a Game Plan Defining the Organizational Approach The Naval Group’s Grand Tour A Prophet in His Own Land Part II: Building a Decisive Weapon (1947-1952) Rising from the Ashes Taking on the Navy Taking on the Atomic Energy Commission The Attack from the Undersea Warfare Symposium Getting Industry Aboard: Westinghouse and General Electric Getting the Billet Creating the Means I Find Myself Working for Rickover Mandil Enters the Scene Panoff Is Brought In Going after “A Few Good Men” “The Pinks” The Support Staff Extending the Effect: Planning and Budgeting Getting Started with the Work Creating a Zirconium Industry and a Hafnium Industry Extending the Effect: The Materials Industry Deciding to Build the Prototype Plant inside a Submarine Hull “Suppose Your Son Were to Serve on this Submarine” “Court Orders Sanity Test for Rockwell” Killing the Breeder Bringing in a Shipbuilder Getting a Ship The Craft of Building Submarines Extending the Effect: Shipbuilding Pierce Goes Nuclear Recruiting Submarine Drivers Extending the Effect: Recruitment and Training The Aircraft Carrier Project A “Fat Slob” Almost Gets Fired The Nautilus Keel Laying Part III: Putting the Atom to Work (1950-1957) The Basic Technical Parameters The Benefits of Starting with a Submarine In Defense of a Parochial Viewpoint Setting the Radiation Standards The Production of Sponge Zirconium Problems with Structural Materials Training Lessons Starting to “Own” the Design Selecting Hafnium as the Control Material Starting Up Mark I Extending the Effect: Construction Scram The Important Role of the NRX “Don’t Overlook the Obvious” Mark I’s Transatlantic Trip Ironing out the Procedures Extending the Effect: Operating Procedures and Manuals. Going after the Navy A Few Phone Calls Congress Forces a Deal The Large Ship Reactor Project and Civilian Atomic Power The AEC as Adversary Learning to Think Civilian Extending the Effect: The Electric Utility Industry Rickover’s Power Base in Congress Technical Intuition “Everything Has to be Built Special” Extending the Effect: Large Equipment Manufacturers Reactor Safety Checking the Radiation Levels Getting Safety Approval Dealing with the Public The Safeguards Hearings The Faulty Piping Incident Extending the Effect: Radiation and Safety Standards “Under Way on Nuclear Power” The Nautilus Reaches “Initial Crit” At Sea at Last Rickover and the Theater Atomic Power Ashore “Open Skies” and “Atoms for Peace” Extending the Effect: Technical Information Shippingport Goes On Line Part IV: Upgrading the Quality of U.S. Industry (1955-1960) Naval Reactors’ Long-Range Objectives “We’re in the Education Business” The Seawolf Takes Center Stage–Briefly The Elusive Advantages of Thermal Efficiency Getting Safety Approval Leaks Rickover and the Transatlantic Telephone “He’s Married, Y’know” The Office Picnic and the Parade of the Dinosaurs Gearing Up to Build and Service the Nuclear Fleet Extending the Effect: Radiological Engineering Gathering Strength The Submarine Atmosphere Problem The Submarine Fleet Reactor Program The Role of “NR Reps” Rickover Decides to “Deal Officially” Quaker Meetings on Sycamore Island The Rickover Conference Manning the Ships The Rickover Interview System The PCO Interview “My Hero” Into the Arctic “Nautilus 90 North” “No Room at the Inn” Surface at the Pole The Ballistic Missile Submarine Project The Polaris Difference Tracking the Subs Life on Patrol A Lesson on the Military Mind “Here They Come Again” Part V: Proclaiming the Need for Excellence (1959-1964) The Global Perspective “Open Skies” Revisited Rickover and the Lenin The Triton: Around the World Submerged Giving the Technology to France The Leaky Congressional Hearings Educating for Quality Educators versus Educationists Rickover and the Doctors A Submarine Crew Quiz Rickover’s School System Extending the Effect: Education Getting into the Inner Circle The Price of Success The Admiral and the Union Official The Smaller/Lighter/Cheaper Lobby Dinner with Edward Teller The Word Engineer Award Operation in Ports Getting Safeguards Clearance The Challenge by Teller “We Fought a War over That!” The Loss of the Thresher The Thresher’s Wake “Stay Out of it! That’s None of Your Business” Rickover As Team Player One More Try for Permanence Extending the Effect: The Nonnuclear Navy Part VI: Extending the Rickover Effect (1964-1986) Leaving Naval Reactors Setting Up MPR Associates, Inc. “How Do You Run a Business?” Rickover As Historian The Three Mile Island Incident President Carter Asks Rickover’s Help Rickover Alumni Get into the Act Rickover Returns to Three Mile Island An Opportunity Missed The Rickover Hall of Engineering Rickover Gets Fired Rickover “in Retirement” Launching the USS Hyman G. Rickover “He Accepted Gifts from a Contractor” The Nautilus Comes Home to Stay Rickover at Home “They Tell Me I’m Dying” Humphrey’s Retirement Party Assessing the Rickover Effect EPILOGUE Rickover Departs The Rickoids  The Chinese language edition More excerpts from Reviews Luckily, it is only towards the very end of this book that its author quotes with approval Admiral Rickover’s characterization of your reviewer as one of the “two biggest goddamn fools who ever ran the Navy.” The substance of the book therefore was read with complete objectivity. It is in fact a worthwhile and interesting account of Rickover’s direction of the naval nuclear power program…Rockwell’s account has the ring of credibility… - Orbis (John Lehman) We think the book’s management lessons are of broad interest; as Rickover said in 1954: “The development of naval nuclear propulsion plants is a good example of how one goes about getting a job done.” - Government Executive (Tim Clark, Editor) Rockwell’s detailed and insightful account illustrates Rickover’s remarkable personality and achievements and—perhaps for the first time—also demonstrates his influence on the development of the commercial nuclear power industry…The intimate view of his career that this book provides is an important addition to the study of the history of nuclear engineering. - History of Electrical Engineering Newsletter An excellent manuscript by any standards. You have captured the essence of Rickover the man, the intellect, the manager, the indefatigable warrior—everything—with fairness, humor, sensitivity, and uncommon stylistic aplomb. Your prose disproves the prevalent belief that no engineer can write. The sentences flow gracefully, with a feel for the rhythm of English that many who make a profession of writing would envy. - Connie Buchanan, Editor, Hunt for Red October The Rickover Effect is the most readable and valuable contribution that accurately portrays Admiral’s deep sense of purpose, determination, and hard word in accomplishing his goal. Only the author, who has personal knowledge of the early days of nuclear reactor development, could have written this book. - Commander Eleonore Rickover, NC, USN (ret.), widow of the Admiral Very interesting...could only have been written by someone as close to Rickover as you were. It is well written. It brought back many memories. - Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, Nobel Laureate, Co-Discoverer of Plutonium and Chairman, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1961-1971 This insider’s candid account of Rickover—who was the father of the nuclear Navy and had a key role in development of the first civilian nuclear power station at Shippingport, Pa.—and his methods is based on firsthand anecdotes and rare, previously unreleased documents. - Nuclear News (Jon Payne) With this detailed account of the technological challenges and achievements…the book helps restore the balance between engineering and science. - IEEE Spectrum (Loren J. Butler) |
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