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. During a cold December day in 1952, the reactor located just a few hours away from the Canadian capital of Ottawa suffered a partial meltdown when […]

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