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Chicago Pile-1, 1942
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Title:
Chicago Pile-1, 1942
Caption:
The reactor was a pile of uranium and graphite blocks, assembled under the supervision of the renowned physicist Enrico Fermi, in collaboration with Leó Szilárd, discoverer of the chain reaction. It contained a critical mass of fissile material, together with control rods, and was built as a part of the Manhattan Project by the University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory. Chicago Pile-1 (CP-1) was the world's first human-made nuclear reactor. CP-1 was built on a rackets court, under the abandoned west stands of the original Alonzo Stagg Field stadium, at the University of Chicago. The first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was initiated in CP-1 on December 2, 1942.
Credit:
Album / Science Source / Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Image size:
3000 x 3791 px | 32.5 MB
Print size:
25.4 x 32.1 cm | 10.0 x 12.6 in (300 dpi)
Keywords:
1942 • 20 XX TWENTIETH CENTURY • 20TH CENTURY • A-BOMB • AMERICA • AMERICAN • ATOM BOMB • ATOMIC BOMB RESEARCH • ATOMIC BOMB • ATOMIC RESEARCH • BW • C P 1 • CELEBRITY • CHICAGO PILE 1 • CHICAGO PILE-1 • CHICAGO • CONTROLLED NUCLEAR CHAIN REACTION • CP 1 • CP-1 • DECEMBER 2 • DECEMBER 2ND • EVENT • FAMOUS • FIRST NUCLEAR REACTOR • HISTORIC • HISTORICAL • HISTORY • HUMAN-MADE NUCLEAR REACTOR • IMPORTANT • MANHATTAN PROJECT • METALLURGICAL LABORATORY • NOTABLE • NUCLEAR BOMB RESEARCH • NUCLEAR BOMB • NUCLEAR CHAIN REACTION • NUCLEAR PHYSICS • NUCLEAR RESEARCH • NUCLEAR WEAPONS • RESEARCH • SCIENCE • STAGG FIELD • TECHNOLOGICAL • TECHNOLOGY • TWENTIETH CENTURY • UNITED STATES • UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO • URANIUM AND GRAPHITE BLOCKS • US • USA • WEAPON RESEARCH • WELL-KNOWN
