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Nuclear Power

Chicago Pile-1

Wednesday Dec 2, 1942
U.S.

In the United States, where Fermi and Szilárd had both emigrated, the discovery of the nuclear chain reaction led to the creation of the first man-made reactor, the research reactor known as Chicago Pile-1, which achieved criticality on December 2, 1942.


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