15 h 25 min, 2 déc. 1942 ans - First Nuclear Reactor
Description:
Enrico Fermi initiates the first human-made self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in the Chicago Pile-1. The reactor's development was part of the Manhattan Project, the Allied effort to create atomic bombs during WWII. Fermi described the Chicago Pile-1 as "a crude pile of black bricks and wooden timbers".
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Date:
15 h 25 min, 2 déc. 1942 ans
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~ Il y a 81 ans
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