atomic pile
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Chita Rivera is a one-woman atomic pile, and her dances are radioactive.
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
Delayed neutrons make an atomic pile possible: they allow time for adjusting its speed of reaction.
From Time Magazine Archive
An important breakthrough occurred in a squash court under the west stands of the University of Chicago’s Stagg Field, where Enrico Fermi had erected an atomic pile.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
