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
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
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
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
