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Remembering Chicago Pile, the World's First Nuclear Reactor
Original: Remembering the Chicago Pile, the First Nuclear Reactor
A New Yorker retrospective revisits the Chicago Pile-1, the world's first nuclear reactor, built beneath the Stagg Field stands at the University of Chicago, where Enrico Fermi's team achieved the first controlled self-sustaining chain reaction in December 1942. The piece reflects on how that crude graphite-and-uranium experiment launched the nuclear age, and readers are debating its legacy for energy today.
Why now: Renewed interest in nuclear power has people revisiting the origins of reactor technology.
Chicago Pile-1University of ChicagoEnrico FermiThe New Yorker
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