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SuperMack99 t1_j96xm8j wrote

Reply to comment by WaterChi in Naval Academy Renames Building After Jimmy Carter by langis_on

The dude once worked with a team to save a small Canadian town from a potential nuclear disaster just two over from where I would grow up 40 years later. Despite him being a hero I didn't learn about it until I was almost 30.

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Spanky_Badger_85 t1_j97n22k wrote

Do you have a link to something on that?

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SuperMack99 t1_j97orzz wrote

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/chalk-river-nuclear-accident-1.6293574

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Coulrophiliac444 t1_j97pz3f wrote

I had heard of this, but never knew the full story.

Thank you for sharing.

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SuperMack99 t1_j97r08n wrote

I spent my summers in the surrounding area and many people I knew lived and worked there around the time it would have happened but I learned about it from an entirely unrelated source after moving away.

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