chain-reacting pile
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Swaggering little Enrico Fermi, who put the match to history's first atomic chain reaction, led off with a circumstantial account of how a chain-reacting pile works.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tritium must be made in a chain-reacting pile by a reaction that costs one free neutron for every atom of tritium produced.
From Time Magazine Archive
The only schemes proposed thus far have substituted a chain-reacting pile for the furnace of an ordinary powerhouse.
From Time Magazine Archive
When natural uranium is put in a chain-reacting pile, its U-235 atoms start splitting and yielding energy, "fission products" and free neutrons.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its chain-reacting pile went live at the beginning of November and within six weeks was producing plutonium by the milligram, and soon by the gram.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
