Chicago Pile Number One

Woods was finishing her thesis work during the summer but sometimes helped Anderson scour Chicago for lumber. CP-1—Chicago Pile Number One—Fermi planned to build in the form of a sphere, the most efficient shape to maximize k. Since the pile s layers of graphite bricks would enlarge concentrically up to its equator, they would need external... 

Chicago Pile Number One, the first man-made nuclear reactor, under construction at the University of Chicago, November 1942. Lower layer holds uranium oxide pseudospheres, unfinished dead layer overlying. Note hammer in foreground for scale. 

The experiment headed by Fermi attempted to stage the first controlled chain reaction. To produce the reaction, the Manhattan Project took over an indoor squash court located under the Sta Field stands, where the scientists constructed what they called Chicago Pile Number One (CP-1). CP-1 consisted of some 46 tons (42 metric tons) of... 

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