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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.

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 ...

“Pile” is an early term for a nuclear reactor. The Graphite Reactor was initially known as the “X-10 Pile” or “Clinton Pile” in reference to the nearby town. Its construction followed Enrico Fermi’s ...

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CP-1, with its manually operated control rod (Image: ANL) Built upon a squash court in the University of Chicago, the Chicago Pile 1 reactor (CP-1) went critical on 2 December 1942. It consisted of a ...

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The inner workings of Chicago Pile 1. ... The graphite served as a moderator, which would slow down the neutrons and make them more likely to strike additional uranium nuclei.

However, on Dec. 2, 1942, at the Chicago Pile-1, Fermi, then a Nobel laureate, led the team that advanced the understanding of how to exploit nuclear fission by demonstrating the first human ...

In the fall of 1942, they slowly built up what would be known as Chicago Pile 1 (CP-1), a towering, 20-foot-tall construction that was assembled from graphite blocks and uranium.