chain-reacting pile
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The only schemes proposed thus far have substituted a chain-reacting pile for the furnace of an ordinary powerhouse.
From Time Magazine Archive
The other is transmuting uranium into explosive plutonium in a chain-reacting pile.
From Time Magazine Archive
But many scientists, though interested in atomic power, are more interested in the radioactive materials from the Oak Ridge chain-reacting pile.
From Time Magazine Archive
The other possibility was to construct a chain-reacting pile made of uranium combined with some substance to slow down the neutrons shot out by its fissioning atoms.
From Time Magazine Archive
With Fermi’s chain-reacting pile still undergoing its difficult gestation, for all they knew this was the only plutonium that would be seen for months, or even years.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
