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Definition of Rickover
1. Noun. United States admiral who advocated the development of nuclear submarines (1900-1986).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rickover
Literary usage of Rickover
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Creating the New World: Stories & Images from the Dawn of the Atomic Age by Theodore Rockwell (2003)
"Rickover was a very conservative engineer; if he could have specified ...
Admiral Rickover put it thus: "The Devil is in the details—but so is Salvation. ..."
2. Creating the New World: Stories & Images from the Dawn of the Atomic Age by Theodore Rockwell (2003)
"Rickover was a very conservative engineer; if he could have specified ...
Admiral Rickover put it thus: "The Devil is in the details—but so is Salvation. ..."
3. The Medical Implications of Nuclear War by Fredric Solomon, Robert Q. Marston (1986)
"... of service without refueling, can have nearly as much long-lived
radioactivity (eg, ^Sr) on board as an operating commercial reactor (Rickover, 1980). ..."
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