In 1952, when a Canadian nuclear reactor suffered a partial meltdown, officials turned to a young Navy sailor who could deal with the situation: 28-year-old future president Jimmy Carter.
Carter described the preparation before he and 22 other men under his command prepared to deal with the situation.
Carter himself was physically lowered into the damaged reactor, exposing himself to dangerous levels of radiation.Writing in his book "Why Not the Best," which was published while he was running for president in 1975, Carter described the training he and the other men went through to prepare for the cleanup.
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