Learning from a zero-incident industry: 6 pillars of naval nuclear propulsion

摘要

Lessons learned by the US Navy in the early 1950s are relevant to the oil and gas industry as leaders seek to eliminate the accidental release of hydrocarbons and catastrophic events. The US Navy accepted nuclear propulsion as the answer to the technological vulnerabilities faced by its fleet after World War II, and many changes were enacted to ensure zero-incident operations. The Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program has been so successful that ships have sailed enough "reactor miles" to go to the sun and back since the launch of the USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear submarine, in 1954. This milestone was achieved without any radiological accidents.