Rickover : the birth of nuclear power / a film by Michael Pack ; producer, writer, and director, Michael Pack ; a production of Manifold Productions, Inc.
Michael Hausman, producer of dramatic scenes ; Joseph Wiedenmayer, editor ; James Callanan, director of photography.
Cast
Tim Blake Nelson (Rickover).
Performer
Joan Allen, narrator.
Event
Originally broadcast on PBS in 2014.
Audience
Rating: TV-PG.
Summary
Rickover built the world's 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 questioned Rickover's goal of an all nuclear navy, and others questioned his creation of a technocratic elite, his own navy within the Navy.
