Jimmy Carter Once Lowered Himself Into a Nuclear Reactor After a Partial Meltdown

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Under-Reacting Nearly three-quarters of a century ago, a youthful Jimmy Carter was brought in during the world's first nuclear reactor meltdown to lead a toxic cleanup crew.

As Fox 5 Atlanta recounts, the Georgia-born late president — who died on December 29 at the ripe old age of 100 — was just 28 years old when he was brought in to help clean up nuclear waste at an NRX research reactor in Chalk River, Canada.

"We were fairly well instructed then on what nuclear power was, but for about six months after that I had radioactivity in my urine," he told CNN.

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Author / Journalist: Noor Al-Sibai

Category: Technology

Markets: United StatesCanadaGeorgia

Topics: Nuclear meltdown Nuclear reactor Jimmy carter The digest

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Published On: 2025-01-11 @ 17:03:20 (13 hours ago)

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