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Rickover, as the Navy burns its way through the latest iteration of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/navy-league\/2018\/04\/11\/interview-the-navys-top-submarine-builder-talks-virginia-class-challenges-successes\/\" title=\"\" class=\"selected-link\">Virginia-class attack submarine.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At a ceremony at General Dynamics Electric Boat in Connecticut, the Navy celebrated the laying down of Rickover&#8217;s keel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Adm. Rickover\u2019s gift to our Nation\u2019s defense \u2014 safe, reliable, and militarily superior naval nuclear propulsion \u2014 is as vital to our warfighting edge today as it was at the beginning of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program 70 years ago,&#8221; said Naval Reactors head Adm. 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