atomic pile
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Tracerlab also began marketing elements which had been made radioactive by insertion in the Oak Ridge atomic pile.
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The tenth anniversary of the first chain reaction in an atomic pile was celebrated at: 1.
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At this heady point a sobering word came from famed Physicist Dr. Fr�d�ric Joliot-Curie, who tends France's atomic pile, known as "Zoe," at Fort de Ch�tillon.
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Ordinary steel rings are put in the AEC's atomic pile at Oak Ridge and "cooked" for a month in neutrons.
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Progress on the atomic pile gave reason for optimism, but Fermi—unhappily relocated to Chicago on Compton’s orders—was still building only prototypes.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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