Atomic bombs and radiation dangers are in the news these days, thanks to a combination of political power and stage-four paranoia, a lethal combination we didn’t expect to find haunting current world leaders.
I discovered that scores of dangerous nuclear reactor incidents have occurred across the globe that never got into the news the way Fukashima, Chernobyl and Three Mile Island did.
But let me tell you about the very first nuclear reactor meltdown that scared the bejesus out of everybody. It occurred in the Ottawa Valley in Canada in December 1952. The Chalk River reactor disaster sent a shockwave of panic among scientists, politicians and the general public around the world. And its 70th anniversary is coming up in a fortnight, one that deserves a day of car-honking.
When the Canadian government asked U.S. nuclear experts for help, no one was really sure what to do. Operative nuclear reactors had only been around about a year. This was the world’s first encounter with such a situation.
So who did they get to take on this deadly, unprecedented disaster?
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