chain-reacting pile
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At Brookhaven, L.I., a dragline excavator manned by a nuclear physicist broke ground last week for the first chain-reacting pile to be built in the U.S. in peacetime.*
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
The Russians also knew, theoretically, how to build a chain-reacting pile.
From Time Magazine Archive
The other is transmuting uranium into explosive plutonium in a chain-reacting pile.
From Time Magazine Archive
A chain-reacting pile would be more efficient but still existed only in theory, for Fermi’s most recent prototype had produced less than one neutron per fission—a definite fizzle.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
