chain-reacting pile
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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 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
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
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
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
