We Know You're Very Careful But: A Writer's Enlistment.

The article discusses the author's experiences of being enlisted as a seaman recruit in the U.S. Navy. He participated in the Nuclear Propulsion Program, a two-and-a-half year course designed to train technicians for nuclear-powered submarines. He studied thermodynamics, reactor physics and radiological controls for another six months. He remembered that he and his colleagues used to laugh at claims by anti-nuclear protestors that real submarines were replacing depleted nuclear fuel cells at their base.