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How Jimmy Carter once helped clean up a partial nuclear meltdown — in Ontario

But in December 1952, James Earl Carter Jr. was a young U.S. naval officer about to be sent to a nuclear facility north of Ottawa to help clean up the world’s first serious reactor accident, after a partial meltdown of the lab’s reactor.

The now-98-year-old Carter started hospice care at his home this weekend, prompting a rush of remembrances, including a consequential piece of international nuclear history that played out at Ontario’s Chalk River Laboratories more than 70 years ago.

 

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