> I don't know how many people on HN... and heard of Rickover? Eliding "have served" -- not American, don't care. I suspect the name is familiar to a lot of S

> I don't know how many people on HN... and heard of Rickover? Eliding "have served" -- not American, don't care. I suspect the name is familiar to a lot of SF readers, as Rickover reactors play an important part in Kim Stanley Robinson's SF novels about the colonisation of Mars. That's where I know it from.