Enrico Fermi
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Enrico Fermi was an Italian-American physicist, renowned for being the creator of the world's first artificial nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1, and a member of the Manhattan Project. He won the 19
Fermi in 1943
Fermi was born in Rome at Via Gaeta 19.
Plaque at Fermi's birthplace
Enrico Fermi as a student in Pisa
X-10 Graphite Reactor
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The X-10 Graphite Reactor is a decommissioned nuclear reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Formerly known as the Clinton Pile and X-10 Pile, it was the world's second arti
Workers in the Graphite Reactor use a rod to push fresh uranium slugs into the reactor's concrete loading face.
Diagram of the reactor
Under construction
X-10 under construction