chain-reacting pile
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The isotopes are made by a chain-reacting pile in a pale green, blocky building.
From Time Magazine Archive
The other is transmuting uranium into explosive plutonium in a chain-reacting pile.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Russians also knew, theoretically, how to build a chain-reacting pile.
From Time Magazine Archive
When natural uranium is put in a chain-reacting pile, its U-235 atoms start splitting and yielding energy, "fission products" and free neutrons.
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
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