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"Jimmy Carter was the president who saved the day when he was a younger man  it definitely, definitely resonated," Weiss said. So why does he think it caught so many people's attention? "He was told it was likely that he would never have children."Īfter the story was shared so widely, Weiss said people across Canada and North America were reaching out, commenting and following the historical society's Facebook page. The temperature kept rising after a stuck valve misled the operators into. He had radioactive urine for many weeks afterwards. They were tested continuously," he said. Disaster struck in the early morning hours of March 28, 1979, when water-coolant pumps failed and a reactor overheated. According to an analysis of a five-year study by a panel of independent scientists convened years after the incident, the SRE accident spit out up to 459 times the amount of radiation released during the 1979 meltdown at Three Mile Island. As the cooling system was shut down for a scheduled safety test, the reactor went critical and experienced a catastrophic core meltdown. and began to conceptualize the Reactor Core Meltdown in August. It was on this day that a steam explosion and meltdown occurred, killing all three operators. In late 2014, the Pinewood Research Facility was opened to the public by Diddleshot.

Milnes said Carter remembered the after-effects of the experience decades later. On January 3, 1961, three military men (John Byrne, Richard McKinley, and Richard Legg) made their way to the SL-1 and restarted it after a scheduled shutdown over the holidays. Milnes, right, and Carter are seen in Plains, Ga., at the launch of Milnes' book, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter: A Canadian Tribute.

Using details from an article written by journalist and author Arthur Milnes, Weiss had posted about the Chalk River meltdown last Tuesday night. That page goes on to say it was the world's first nuclear reactor incident, but little else about what actually happened. In December 1952, an experimental nuclear reactor in Chalk River, Ont., about 180 kilometres northwest of Ottawa, "experienced mechanical problems and operator error that led to overheating fuel rods and significant damage to the NRX reactor core," according to a Government of Canada page. A viral post from the Historical Society of Ottawa is illuminating a part of the region's past that few in the area - or the country - have ever heard before.īen Weiss, co-ordinator of the society's Facebook page and speaker series, recently posted about the world's first nuclear reactor meltdown. And while Chornobyl, Fukushima and Three Mile Island often come to mind when nuclear incidents are brought up, this one happened less than 200 kilometres from the Canadian capital.Įven more interesting is catastrophe was averted, in part, with help from future U.S.