First controlled nuclear chain reaction achieved 75 years ago
Fermi and other physics immigrants harnessed the power of fission
On December 2, 1942, scientists watched as the nuclear reactor that had been constructed beneath the University of Chicago’s football stadium produced the first controlled, sustained fission chain reaction.
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