Photograph made during the construction of the Chicago
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)
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11968429
Media ID
45371475
Size
2403px x 3000px
(2.2MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Everett Collection
Source
Everett Collection
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