{"id":15386,"date":"2014-10-10T03:00:42","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=15386"},"modified":"2014-10-10T03:00:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T08:00:42","slug":"whats-it-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/15386","title":{"rendered":"What&#039;s it Like?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2014\/10\/what-it-was-like-to-test-the-first-submarine-nuclear-reactor\/381195\/\">What It Felt Like to Test the First Submarine Nuclear Reactor<\/a>, with substantial quotes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/1959\/01\/admiral-rickovers-gamble\/308436\/?single_page=true\">from an earlier article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was of interest to me, owing to my ~5 year stint as an instructor in the nuke program. Some of the details point toward Rickover&#8217;s vision; things like realizing that more could be learned by building the test reactor in the same configuration that a sub&#8217;s reactor have in a submarine \u2014 starting with a prototype in any other configuration would leave too many unknowns when the &#8220;operational&#8221; configuration was built (making systems more compact invariably introduces new problems), and too much time would be wasted. And the general attitude of over-engineering the reactor \u2014 scaling down features is usually far easier than beefing up or adding new ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What It Felt Like to Test the First Submarine Nuclear Reactor, with substantial quotes from an earlier article This was of interest to me, owing to my ~5 year stint as an instructor in the nuke program. Some of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/15386\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,33,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-navy","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}