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Download full textDepartment of Energy, Washington, DC. – 1982
On December 2, 1942, in a racquet court underneath the West Stands of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, a team of scientists led by Enrico Fermi created the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. This updated and revised story of the first reactor (or "pile") is based on postwar interviews (as told to Corbin…
Descriptors: Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Physics, Nuclear Technology, Science Experiments
