December 12th - Anniversary of 1st nuclear reactor meltdown

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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WOW

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

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1st nuke meltdown in Globe

December, 1952: Major nuclear accident at Chalk River

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

What happened

Link to how it went down:

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