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215. For a while Jimmy was radio active !

Mon Dec 30, 2024, 01:09 PM

Dec 30

Carter and his 22 other team members were separated into teams of three and lowered into the reactor for 90-second intervals to clean the site. It was estimated that a minute-and-a-half was the maximum time humans could be exposed to the levels of radiation present in the area.

It was still too much, especially by today's standards. The future president had radioactive urine for months after the cleanup.

"They let us get probably a thousand times more radiation than they would now. It was in the early stages, and they didn't know."

https://www.military.com/history/how-jimmy-carter-saved-canadian-nuclear-reactor-after-meltdown.html

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