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Originally Posted by geonuc
Sort of. He was an officer in the US Navy's nuclear submarine fleet. As such, he received extensive training on nuclear reactors and nuclear principles.
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He received a B.S. in Science from the US Naval Academy. While Carter trained to be a nuclear engineer, and was accepted into the fledgling nuclear navy under Rickover, he resigned his commission in 1953 when his father died, two years before the 1955 launch of the USS Nautilus.
As president, however, he created two cabinet-level positions: the Department of Energy and the Department of Education.
Personally, I'm not convinced either one has lived up to expectations.