A story every Navy nuke knows.
Rumor around Rickover Hall was that the excursion was deliberate — some sort of revenge. Did anyone ever figure ut just what the hell happened at SL-1?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1
Wikipedia’s description fits pretty well with what I remember. The thing they don’t mention is that Rickover used the incident to make sure that no one in the military but the Navy ever ran a reactor again.
Let’s go for the inside joke:
Thank God for delayed neutrons.