atomic pile

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But when Greenewalt landed in Chicago, where the first atomic pile was being built at the University of Chicago, the scientists thought differently.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the polonium, which is made by radiating bismuth in an atomic pile, costs about $10 per curie.

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At this heady point a sobering word came from famed Physicist Dr. Fr�d�ric Joliot-Curie, who tends France's atomic pile, known as "Zoe," at Fort de Ch�tillon.

From Time Magazine Archive

They brought the hair from a known arsenic victim to "Zo�," the atomic pile at Ch�tillon.

From Time Magazine Archive

An important breakthrough occurred in a squash court under the west stands of the University of Chicago’s Stagg Field, where Enrico Fermi had erected an atomic pile.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik