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1952 - Chalk River - The Forgotten Nuclear Accidents

Mélissa Guillemette

The Walrus

2022

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1952 - Chalk River - The Forgotten Nuclear Accidents

The 2022 article by The Walrus discusses the world’s first serious nuclear accident occurred in Ontario Canada in 1952, followed by a second incident there in 1958. NR was doing reactor fuel testing and participated in the recovery efforts.


Additional details were made available by the President, Society for the Preservation of Canada’s Nuclear Heritage and are available here.

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