December 12th - Anniversary of 1st nuclear reactor meltdown

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By Alina Abbott on 12 December 2007 - 3:30pm

Today is the anniversary of the first recorded nuclear reactor meltdown. It happened in 1952 at the Chalk River facility. The reactor involved is now shut down, but it is food for thought in the debates raging at the moment about whether to force the re-opening of a reactor shut down for safety reasons.

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Submitted by Chris Tindal on 13 December 2007 - 11:32am.

That's amazing. How is it possible this hasn't been reported anywhere else?

http://www.christindal.ca/

http://www.christindal.ca/

1st nuke meltdown in Globe

Submitted by Gail L. Snuggs on 13 December 2007 - 2:36pm.

December, 1952: Major nuclear accident at Chalk River

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.2...

What happened

Submitted by Dean Carnduff on 13 December 2007 - 7:31pm.

Link to how it went down:

http://gs.fanshawec.ca/pjedicke/nrx.htm