File:Stagg Field reactor.jpg
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English: The first nuclear reactor was erected in 1942 in the West Stands section of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago. On December 2, 1942 a group of scientists achieved the first self-sustaining chain reaction and thereby initiated the controlled release of nuclear energy. The reactor consisted of uranium and uranium oxide lumps spaced in a cubic lattice embedded in graphite. In 1943 it was dismantled and reassembled at the Palos Park unit of the Argonne National Laboratory. |
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| Source | http://narademo.umiacs.umd.edu/cgi-bin/isadg/viewobject.pl?object=95120 | |||
| Author | Melvin A. Miller of the Argonne National Laboratory | |||
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