✅ True. The former president once helped to contain a potentially dangerous accident at a nuclear reactor in Canada, back in 1952.
In late 2021, we received multiple inquiries from Snopes readers seeking to verify the authenticity of a fascinating story, told in several widely shared social media posts, about one of the pre-White House accomplishments of former President Jimmy Carter.that contained an old picture of a young Carter, a screenshot of the anecdote, and the following caption:
Do you remember the world's very first nuclear meltdown? That time the US President, an expert in nuclear physics, heroically lowered himself into the reactor and saved Ottawa, Canada's capital? Sounds like schlocky action movie, but it actually happened!by the Historical Society of Ottawa, which can be seen below:
The core claim from those accounts was that, as a young naval officer, Carter played a significant role in containing a nuclear meltdown. That claim was accurate, and we are issuing a rating of"True."Carter, who was born in 1924 and grew up in Plains, Georgia, had a relatively short but distinguished naval career, asPresident James Earl"Jimmy" Carter graduated from the Naval Academy in 1946 with distinction, after which he was assigned to USS as an ensign.
On Dec. 12, 1952, an accident took place at the National Research Experimental nuclear reactor at Chalk River, near the Canadian capital of Ottawa. A detailed, official Atomic Energy of Canada account of the incident and its aftermath can be found
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