Created by Tom Horn on 2 Nov 2009, Last Update on 2 Nov 2009

Enrico Fermi's Reactor - 2 Dec 1942

A team led by Enrico Fermi, for whom Fermilab is named, initiated the first artificial self sustaining nuclear chain reaction in an experimental nuclear reactor named Chicago Pile-1.

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