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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 … later, Andrea Zoia, a research engineer at the Reactor Studies and Applied Mathematics Department - DES/ISAS/DM2S … of these materials,” explains Andrea Zoia. At the time, it was crucial for Fermi and his colleagues to obtain …
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