This block is from the University of Chicago reactor used in the Manhattan Project. Nobel Prize-winning Italian physicist Enrico Fermi managed the University of Chicago reactor. On the afternoon of December 2,1942 under the abandoned west stands of Staff Field, the first controlled nuclear reaction occurred. Humankind had controlled energy released from the nucleus […]The post White Glove Wednesday – Graphite Moderator Block appeared first on Marshall Museum.
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