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TitleAtomic Pile [sketch] DescriptionOn December 2, 1942 using a nuclear reactor erected under a section of the West Stands of the University of Chicago's Stagg Field, a group of scientists achieved the first self-sustaining chain reaction and thereby initiated a controlled release of nuclear energy. The reactor consisted of uranium and uranium oxide lumps spaced in a cubic lattice embedded in graphite. In 1943, the reactor was dismantled and reassembled at the Argonne National Laboratory. Photographic copy of drawing. Subject
CreditsArchival Photographic Files, apf2-00501, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library. TypeArtwork Associated LessonGamma Ray History |
