atomic pile
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Gangling John Henry is a goodhearted scientist who has discovered a mildly radioactive substance called Taurum while experimenting with gold at an atomic pile.
From Time Magazine Archive
But when Greenewalt landed in Chicago, where the first atomic pile was being built at the University of Chicago, the scientists thought differently.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the polonium, which is made by radiating bismuth in an atomic pile, costs about $10 per curie.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tracerlab also began marketing elements which had been made radioactive by insertion in the Oak Ridge atomic pile.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sure enough, conflict between them broke open at the end of January, when Lawrence appeared in Chicago with a proposal to centralize all the plutonium and isotope work, including the atomic pile, at Berkeley.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
