In July 1953, his father passed away and he resigned his commission to run the family peanut farm. He started nuclear power school (a six month course of study that leads to operator training) in March, 1953. In November 1952, he began a three month temporary duty assignment at the Naval Reactor branch. He served in a variety of billets, including engineer officer of diesel submarines and qualified to command submarines. Even if the Naval Academy had offered a majors program for his class, it is unlikely that it would have included Nuclear Engineering as a option – after all, the Manhattan Project was a dark secret for most of his time at Annapolis.Īfter graduation, Jimmy Carter served as a surface warfare officer for two years and then volunteered for the submarine force. He graduated from the US Naval Academy in June 1946 (he entered in 1943 with the class of 1947, but his class was in a war-driven accelerated 3 year program) with an undesignated bachelor of science degree. President Carter was a submarine officer, but he was not a nuclear engineer. It is definitely the right thing to do our current once-through cycle only extracts about 3-5% of the potential energy of the initial fuel loads. I enjoyed your story about new efforts to recycle nuclear fuel. The below is a letter to a Wall Street Journal writer in response to an article about used nuclear fuel recycling.
He left the Navy in October 1953, about 15 months before Jan 17, 1955, the day the the world’s first nuclear submarine went to sea.
It provides documented proof that Jimmy Carter was not a “nuclear engineer” and never served on a nuclear submarine. A recent conversation about the dangers of false claims of expertise stimulated me to revise and republish a nearly 11 year-old post.
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