As the nation laid to rest former President Jimmy Carter, they remembered him for a slew of his accomplishments in office but one nuclear moment from before his presidency is sure to shock you… no pun intended.
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Back when Carter was an officer in the U.S. Naval Academy, he was part of the development of the nation’s first nuclear-powered submarines, per The New York Times. Prior to that, he got an up-close glimpse of a nuclear energy source up in Canada. As the story goes, back in 1952, there was a mechanical failure on the core of the NRX reactor held at the Chalk River Laboratories on the Ottawa River.
The device was said to have a capacity of 30 megawatts. However, the report says on Dec. 12, 1952, workers shut down the reactor to inspect its cooling system when a mistake by one worker and a supervisor led to confusion …