Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power

Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power (2014)

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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.

Director: Michael Pack

Casts

	Joan Allen as Narrator (voice)
	Michael Stewart Allen as Dunford
	Joel Briel as Caspar Weinberger
	James Cronin as Chief of Staff
	Jonathan Fielding as Midshipman #1
	Jonathan Forte as Rickover's Aide
	Antony Hagopian as Anderson
	Torsten N. Hillhouse as Beach
	Lauren Hubbell as Engineer #2
	David Lavine as Ted Rockwell
	George McDaniel as Supply Co. Executive
	Nick Mills as Roddis
	Stevan Lee Mraovitch as Military police
	Tim Blake Nelson as Admiral Rickover

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