A 1946 drawing of the Pile-1 reactor, which was erected beneath the west stands of Stagg Field. (The University of Chicago Photographic Archive) Years of Rage: 1966–1969. The University of Chicago ...

The Historic Moment. The experiment, known as Chicago Pile-1 (CP-1), was conducted in a makeshift laboratory located beneath the bleachers of Stagg Field, the university’s football stadium.

1 / 5 | Though X described the world’s first artificial nuclear reactor as a “crude pile of black bricks and wooden timbers”, Chicago Pile-1 was actually quite safe — a reputation it had ...

TMI’s Unit 2 reactor – the site of the nation’s worst nuclear power accident in March 1979 – is independent of Unit 1 and is currently being decommissioned by its owner, Energy Solutions.

Let’s start with the pretty stuff: flowers. In a delightful video, Jan Tichy animated natural elements found in the work of seven important Chicago artists, bringing to life the flat, faux-naif ...

Drawing of the Chicago Pile-1 graphite-moderated fission reactor. (Credit: DoE ) The first artificial nuclear reactor was the Chicago Pile-1 , demonstrating the first human-made, self-sustaining ...

The new age began on a chill, grey afternoon 20 years ago. The site was a laboratory in a squash court beneath the stands of the University of Chicago's old Stagg Field Stadium. Gathered there ...

He was sent to the Argonne Laboratory outside Chicago to train on the the Argonne Pile, the experimental reactor that replaced Fermi’s original. Data from operations there fed into the design of ...

The B Reactor on the Hanford nuclear site in Washington was the world ... A microgram is 1/1,000,000 ... He was sent to the Argonne Laboratory outside Chicago to train on the the Argonne Pile, ...

The Ispra-1 reactor (Image: Sogin) Ispra-1 is a 5MWt heterogeneous thermal reactor at Ispra, in the province of Varese. It was the latest version of the Chicago Pile research reactor series developed ...

Sept. 26 marks 80 years since the B Reactor first went online. We get a tour from Terri Andre, a volunteer docent at the Manhattan Project National Historical Park at Hanford. June 20, 2025 ...