A model of a nuclear reactor designed by Enrico Fermi, 1942
- Made:
- 1942 in United States, Chicago and Illinois
- designer:
- Enrico Fermi
Sectional model, one eighth full size, of Fermi's original nuclear reactor (atomic pile) CP-1, (1942)
Model (scale 1:8). On 2 December 1942, Enrico Fermi (1901-54) and a team of scientists in Chicago achieved the first self-sustaining chain reaction, in Chicago Pile no. 1, the world's first nuclear reactor. It was built in a squash court at the University of Chicago and was a pile of graphite blocks containing lumps of uranium, in a wooden framework. This reactor was built as part of the Manhattan Project to construct the first atomic weapons.
Details
- Category:
- Nuclear Physics
- Object Number:
- 1967-405
- Measurements:
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overall: 1230 mm x 2310 mm x 810 mm,
- type:
- nuclear reactors
- credit:
- Atomic Energy Research Establishment
