Jimmy Carter was one of the 150 U.S. military personnel who helped clean up partial meltdown at the experimental Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories in 1952
It was December 1952, the Cold War was raging and in a rural Ontario community a nuclear reactor had just partially melted down – the first serious reactor accident in the world.
Jimmy Carter, best known for being the 39th president of the United States, was at that time Lt. James Earl Carter Jr., a 28-year-old officer who arrived with a team in the aftermath of the accident to help. In his 1975 autobiography, Carter recounted how he was part of a U.S. military contingency who helped dismantle parts of the reactor facility, donning white protective equipment and working in 90-second shifts to reduce radiation exposure.
Carter would later say the cleanup was an indication of the close ties between Canada and the U.S., a relationship he would look to as president during the 1980 Iranian hostage crisis.“There would’ve been contamination,” he said. “There would have been relatively high radiation fields and that’s why they had limited time to go in and do their job.”
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How Jimmy Carter once helped clean up a partial nuclear meltdown — in OntarioHe is known now as Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States.
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How Jimmy Carter once helped clean up a partial nuclear meltdown – in OntarioIt was December 1952, the Cold War was raging and in a rural Ontario community a nuclear reactor had just partially melted down – the first serious reactor accident in the world.
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How Jimmy Carter once helped clean up a partial nuclear meltdown — in OntarioHe is known now as Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States.
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How Jimmy Carter once helped clean up a partial nuclear meltdown in OntarioIt was December 1952, the Cold War was raging and in a rural Ontario community a nuclear reactor had just partially melted down – the first serious reactor accident in the world. The partial meltdown at the experimental Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories, about 200 kilometres north of Ottawa, was significant for the changes to reactor safety and design it helped usher in.
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