Talk:Nuclear Reactor Operator Badge

Army Nuclear Power Program
Hello. I am a veteran of the ANPP and I will be adding a lot of material on Wikipedia and editing the pages that exist now that are related to the program, including this one. It is good to see this here, but this page needs a lot of work with regard to the badges, their requirements, etc. I hope to end up with a well-organized set of pages (articles) that cover the ANPP. Rb88guy (talk) 19:46, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Added corrected qualification requirements section
And a picture of my CRO badge. I have other badge pics, will try to add them. I typed this stuff directly from a scanned copy of the SOP at the SM-1, which I still have. All this material, and lots more, needs to be moved into an improved ANPP article, which I will try to create. Rb88guy (talk) 01:08, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Moved qualification requirements
To main ANPP article. Makes more sense there. Rb88guy (talk) 20:25, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Badge Symbol
Does anyone know the origin of the symbol on the badges? Does it have some particular meaning? One would think that perhaps the model of the atom would be used on such a badge, but the Army badge looks kind of like an engineering symbol of some kind. Some background info would be nice in the article. DesScorp (talk) 20:06, 24 March 2015 (UTC)


 * The only thing I have found on these badge's design was from The Army Institute of Heraldry's (TIOH) website for the Nuclear Reactor Operator Badges. The center device is one of the astronomical symbols for the planet Uranus, specifically the one more commonly found in older British literature.  Since Uranus sounds similar to Uranium, it could be why it was chosen.  I have no idea why the rest of the badges were designed the way they were.  However, the TIOH is big on design reasoning (which this YouTube video from 1969), so if you contacted them they may give you some good information on why they designed these badges the way they did and you can share that information with the rest of the world via Wikipeida. --McChizzle (talk) 21:13, 26 March 2015 (UTC)


 * I found and added the design rationale for TIOH. --McChizzle (talk) 19:50, 25 April 2015 (UTC)