chain-reacting pile
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The isotopes are made by a chain-reacting pile in a pale green, blocky building.
From Time Magazine Archive
The other is transmuting uranium into explosive plutonium in a chain-reacting pile.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Russians also knew, theoretically, how to build a chain-reacting pile.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
A chain-reacting pile would be more efficient but still existed only in theory, for Fermi’s most recent prototype had produced less than one neutron per fission—a definite fizzle.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
