chain-reacting pile
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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
At Brookhaven, L.I., a dragline excavator manned by a nuclear physicist broke ground last week for the first chain-reacting pile to be built in the U.S. in peacetime.*
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
Plutonium is made in a chain-reacting pile, the trickiest, most hair-raising item of industrial equipment.
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
