Reactors: Modern-Day Alchemy
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Reactors: Modern-Day Alchemy
Published: Feb 09, 2019
Source: Argonne National Laboratory
Find out moreA nice article presenting an introduction to some of the worlds first nuclear reactors, including pictures of Chicago Piles 2, 3 and 5. There is little in the way of safety discussion here, but this is in itself part of history.
The ultimate paradox, of course, is that even though we're all going to die, we've all got to live in the meantime…