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The Chicago piles: on the trail of the first nuclear reactor
… the first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1. With World War II raging in the background, a race began to develop the … before Hitler's Germany and end the global conflict. This was the Manhattan Project. Eighty years later, Andrea Zoia, … the first pile (spherical), its construction used the same elements. The large-format plans were extremely accurate. …
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