Through its study of the
nuclear propulsion transformation case, this article shows that Kotter's methodology can be successfully applied to Service transformation in a way that mitigates the constraints to change inherent in Service bureaucracies, Congress, Federal agencies, and industry.
Most attention focused on the part of the report that said Iran had informed the agency of a "decision that has been taken to construct naval
nuclear propulsion in future."
Comparing the dispositions relevant for the matter in INFCIRC/153, Corrected and in INFCIRC/435 (15), he shows that when it comes to
nuclear propulsion, the language in the Quadripartite Agreement is more specific and detailed, as it makes it very clear that 'special safeguards procedures' (the codeword for non-application of safeguards to nuclear material in NPMA) would apply "only while the nuclear material is used for
nuclear propulsion or in the operation of any vehicle, including submarines and prototypes, or in such other non-proscribed nuclear activity as agreed between the State Party and the Agency" (IAEA 1994a, [section] 13, [b]; emphasis added).
Kamlesh N Vyas, director, BARC, described the complexities of building the reactor for the submarine and the critical role played by the book's author who was the then director of Reactor Projects Group leading the
Nuclear Propulsion for the Indian Nuclear Submarine Programme.
As a Junior Submarine Officer, I had a conversation with a post-command submariner concerning the submarine
nuclear propulsion plant.
The US has a fleet of 15 military oil tankers, and only aircraft carriers and some submarines are equipped with
nuclear propulsion. All other vessels must frequently abandon their mission for a few hours to navigate in parallel with the tanker, a delicate operation, especially in bad weather.
Navy's
nuclear propulsion systems, the newly formed Atomic Energy Commission encouraged utilities to take advantage of the new technology so that finite supplies of fossil fuels could be protected and the environmental impact of generating electricity could be reduced.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Saturday he was "delighted to learn that the
nuclear propulsion reactor on board INS Arihant, India's first indigenous nuclear powered submarine, has now achieved criticality."
Infrastructure is the unknown with hydrogen fuel cells too, while the long experience of using
nuclear propulsion in submarines is no help for the different design and operating systems in use in merchant shipping.
For the first five chapters George Moore is the lead author, ably covering the more historical aspects and leaving the technically demanding era of guided weapons and
nuclear propulsion to the highly experienced David Brown, whose personal involvement as a constructor during this period clearly shows.
* Explosive
nuclear propulsion: "This is a really awful idea, but it probably would work."
* Rolls-Royce
nuclear propulsion means it will never need to be refuelled