In 1952, an experimental nuclear reactor in Chalk River, Ont., about 180 kilometres northwest of Ottawa, partially melted down, becoming the world’s first nuclear reactor incident. Disaster was averted, in part, with help from future U.S. president Jimmy Carter.

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