File:Control Rod Circuitry for the Chicago Pile, The World's First Nuclear Reactor.png
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English: This schematic of the Chicago Pile's rod control circuitry, including the shutdown, or "SCRAM" line, was completed shortly after the reactor at the University of Chicago went critical in 1942. |
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| Source | E. Fermi, Experimental Production of a Divergent Chain Reaction, AECD-3269 (Oak Ridge, TN: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, January 4, 1952), https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/4414200 |
| Author | Enrico Fermi |
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| current | 07:20, 29 April 2018 | 882 × 594 (254 KB) | Maryland Fan | User created page with UploadWizard |
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