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Lt. Carter saved a nuclear reactor in Canada by exposing himself to radiation to repair fuel rod (Original Post)
LetMyPeopleVote
Feb 2023
OP
I wonder if this was an inspiration for the story line of Star Trek Into Darkness
WarGamer
Feb 2023
#17
The amazing story of how Navy lieutenant Jimmy Carter helped avert a nuclear disaster in 1952
LetMyPeopleVote
Feb 2023
#22
GreenWave
(6,766 posts)1. For a second I thought it was Samantha Carter
/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/2000?cb=20150423174620
Way to go Jimmy!
Way to go Jimmy!
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)2. For real? I thought that was just the Pepsi Syndrome.
roamer65
(36,747 posts)8. ...
Locrian
(4,522 posts)12. oldie but a goodie
Crunchy Frog
(26,646 posts)18. I've been looking for that. This was the best I could find.
Link to tweet
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sabbat hunter
(6,835 posts)3. He deserves
to lie in state at the US Capitol when he does die. A good man, lost to a racist. Deserved better.
malaise
(269,178 posts)5. I'm betting he wants none of that n/t
roamer65
(36,747 posts)9. Definitely.
SunSeeker
(51,715 posts)4. Something like that will never be in Trump's biography. nt
yardwork
(61,712 posts)6. Trump is radiation.
lastlib
(23,290 posts)13. It might be in Santos'........ n/m
maveric
(16,445 posts)7. Badass.
dalton99a
(81,592 posts)10. Kick
gab13by13
(21,408 posts)11. I remember the spoof that Saturday Night Live did about that incident.
Was it Garrett Morris and Bill Murray. Morris was a clean up lady who was told to go in and clean up a spill with a mop and bucket. (radioactive spill)
Oh that was for 3 mile island I think.
Crunchy Frog
(26,646 posts)19. The Pepsi Syndrome.
paleotn
(17,971 posts)14. Fair winds and following seas.
From one former member of the silent service to another, that's one LT I'd have been proud to serve with.
👍👍
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,567 posts)15. President Carter is a hero
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,567 posts)16. Prayers up for you Mr President!
WarGamer
(12,484 posts)17. I wonder if this was an inspiration for the story line of Star Trek Into Darkness
Where Kirk saves the ship inside the Warp Core and dies from radiation poison...
Before being revived by the blood of Khan... lol
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,439 posts)20. k&r and Thanks
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,567 posts)22. The amazing story of how Navy lieutenant Jimmy Carter helped avert a nuclear disaster in 1952
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(8,075 posts)23. k&r