Photograph made during the construction of the
Photograph made during the construction of the Chicago Pile-1 (CP-1), the first nuclear reactor. It was a pile of uranium pellets and graphite blocks, that contained a critical mass of fissile material with control rods. (BSLOC_2015_2_21)
Picture No
11062409
Media ID
45269916
Size
2403px x 3000px
(2.2MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / The Everett Collection
Source
Everett Collection
