2 December 1942
1st Nuclear Reactor
Present at the opening of the 1st nuclear reactor at the University of Chicago
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Browse historical events and people recorded at Chicago in Hungary. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Present at the opening of the 1st nuclear reactor at the University of Chicago
A uranium and graphite pile achieves the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
Sees the opening of the first nuclear reactor in a squash court at the Univ of Chicago
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