chain-reacting pile
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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
Plutonium is made in a chain-reacting pile, the trickiest, most hair-raising item of industrial equipment.
From Time Magazine Archive
The isotopes are made by a chain-reacting pile in a pale green, blocky building.
From Time Magazine Archive
Swaggering little Enrico Fermi, who put the match to history's first atomic chain reaction, led off with a circumstantial account of how a chain-reacting pile works.
From Time Magazine Archive
With Fermi’s chain-reacting pile still undergoing its difficult gestation, for all they knew this was the only plutonium that would be seen for months, or even years.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
