A worker stands next to one of the graphite lattice components of Chicago Pile 1. This was he first nuclear reactor, consisting of 45,000 graphite blocks and over 50 tons of different types of uranium. It was built in 1942 by Leo Szilard and Enrico Fermi, among others, under the bleachers in Stagg Field, the University of Chicago’s football stadium.
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