The Historical Society of Ottawa have detailed the 1952 incident at Chalk River Laboratories involving the former president.
On December 12, 1952, the Chalk River NRX nuclear reactor suffered a partial meltdown. The incident resulted in hundreds of thousands of gallons of radioactive water flooding the core and causing major damage to the reactor., the major failure, along with"several poor decisions by facility operators," resulted in a nuclear fission chain reaction that caused the power level to rise exponentially.
"This energy load would normally not have been a problem, but several experimental fuel rods that were at that moment receiving inadequate cooling for high power operation ruptured and melted," theThousands of nuclear fission particles were released into the atmosphere. The radioactive water also ended up in the reactor building's basement, before being pumped out into shallow ditches near the Ottawa River.
"When a Canadian 'heavy water' nuclear power plant at Chalk River was destroyed by accident in 1952 by a reactor meltdown and subsequent hydrogen explosions, my crew were volunteered by Rickover to assist with the disassembly so it could be replaced.
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