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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 … didn't know exactly what their composition was. However, in order to reconstruct the behavior of the first reactor on a … down. By moving more slowly, the neutrons spent more time near the nuclei and were more likely to cause fission. On …
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