chain-reacting pile
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But many scientists, though interested in atomic power, are more interested in the radioactive materials from the Oak Ridge chain-reacting pile.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tritium must be made in a chain-reacting pile by a reaction that costs one free neutron for every atom of tritium produced.
From Time Magazine Archive
The other is transmuting uranium into explosive plutonium in a chain-reacting pile.
From Time Magazine Archive
The other possibility was to construct a chain-reacting pile made of uranium combined with some substance to slow down the neutrons shot out by its fissioning atoms.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its chain-reacting pile went live at the beginning of November and within six weeks was producing plutonium by the milligram, and soon by the gram.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
