To: Stock Puppy who wrote (436694 ) 10/1/2024 2:07:40 PM From: didjuneau Read Replies (1) | Respond to R. C. Seamans Jr., NASA Figure, Dies at 89 Pre-DEI days.nytimes.com In 1974, shortly after he was named head of the energy administration, Dr. Seamans told The New York Times, “We are never again going to have a cheap-energy situation, and we have got to use every string in our bow if we are going to maintain the lifestyle of this country.” What happened to that string - nuclear energy? Jimmy Carter, nuclear engineer? Carter was ordered to Chalk River to lead a U.S. maintenance crew that joined other American and Canadian service personnel to assist in the shutdown of the reactor. [34] The painstaking process required each team member to don protective gear and be lowered individually into the reactor for 90 seconds at a time, limiting their exposure to radioactivity while they disassembled the crippled reactor. When Carter was lowered in, his job was simply to turn a single screw.Oh, and "climate change" - under his tutelage, he discouraged nuclear reactors and thus we had to keep pumping tons of CO2 into the air! As president, Carter prayed several times a day, and professed that Jesus was the driving force in his life. He was greatly influenced by a sermon he had heard as a young man that asked: "If you were arrested for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter Start pulling threads and you get to some conflicting advice v action. Seamans background: Clinton P. Anderson , when astronauts Gus Grissom , Ed White , and Roger Chaffee were killed in a fire on January 27 while testing the Apollo 204 (later renumbered Apollo 1 ) spacecraft. NASA Administrator James E. Webb secured President Lyndon Johnson's approval for NASA to internally investigate the cause of the accident according to its established procedures, subject to Congressional oversight. NASA's procedure called for Deputy Administrator (and de facto general manager) Robert C. Seamans to appoint and oversee an investigative panel. [40] [ edit ] Jerome Clarke Hunsaker professorship , an MIT-endowed visiting professorship in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, named in honor of the founder of the Aeronautical Engineering Department. During this period with MIT, he was also a consultant to the Administrator of NASA.National Academy of Engineering from May 1973 to December 1974, when he became the first administrator of the new Energy Research and Development Administration . He returned to MIT in 1977, becoming dean of its School of Engineering in 1978. In 1981 he was elected chair of the board of trustees of Aerospace Corp.
