(Tribune News Service) — Jimmy Carter played a key role in repairing one of North America’s early nuclear reactor disasters.

Carter began working with the Naval Reactors Branch of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission -- the Navy's nuclear submarine program -- in 1952. Jimmy Carter started his adult life as a young U.S ...

Was Jimmy Carter a nuclear engineer? Discover the truth about his naval career, his nuclear training, and how it shaped his ...

ATLANTA — In a 1952 episode that has taken on legendary status in recent years, Jimmy Carter -- then a young Naval lieutenant -- helped play a leading role in cleanup efforts at the world's first ...

Drawing on both AEC and Navy engineering experience and funds, this Naval Reactors Branch during the next three years organized and directed a huge research and development effort. Westinghouse ...

A facility used for testing nuclear submarine reactors in Scotland is to be demolished by the 2030s. The Vulcan Naval Reactor Test Establishment (NRTE) was built in 1957 at Dounreay near Thurso.

After a lifetime of achievements, America’s longest living president — Jimmy Carter — has died. Numerous outlets are ...

as the disposal involves the defueling of her two nuclear reactors, where the fuel is moved to a shielded transfer container, which will be shipped via a specially-designed container to the Naval ...

He then also later was with the Naval Reactors Branch, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, figuring into the "design and development of nuclear propulsion plants for naval vessels." This all led to the ...