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Chicago Pile-1
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Chicago Pile-1
Chicago Pile-1
(
CP-1
) was the world's first
nuclear reactor
to achieve
criticality
. Its construction was part of the
Manhattan Project
, the Allied effort to create
atomic bombs
during
World War II
. It was built by the Manhattan Project's
Metallurgical Laboratory
at the
University of Chicago
, under the west viewing stands of the original
Stagg Field
. The first man-made self-sustaining
nuclear chain reaction
was initiated in CP-1 on 2 December 1942, under the supervision of
Enrico Fermi
, who described the apparatus as "a crude pile of black bricks and wooden timbers".
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