As 98-year-old Jimmy Carter enters hospice care, many tributes and memories are pouring in for the former U.S. president, including for his role in help cleaning up a serious nuclear incident in eastern Ontario. ottnews ygk
In 1952, a nuclear reactor at the Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories, roughly 175 km northwest of Ottawa, had just partially melted down.arrived with a team in the aftermath of the accidentHistorian Arthur Milnes says that despite many unknowns, Carter led the team that consisted of both U.S. and Canadian members.Milnes says they spent weeks training in a replica reactor to brace being exposed to intense radiation.
"They would practice unscrewing a bolt, maybe two, because all they would be allowed is 90 seconds in the reactor room because of the radiation.""He went into reactor room wearing protective gear that is a joke today," he says. "And as we now know today, no exposure to that sort of radiation is safe.""There were no apparent aftereffects from this exposure – just a lot of doubtful jokes among ourselves about death versus sterility," Carter wrote.
Milnes, who lives in Kingston, Ont., is also a friend of Carter's and wrote a book on the former president’s life titled “98 Reasons to Thank Jimmy Carter.”“He’s the most profoundly moral man I expect ever to meet in my life. He has a rock solid set of values,” he says of the former president., Milnes says he’s thankful for them.
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