Today is a very important day in nuclear history, as we celebrate the 70th anniversary of the first controlled nuclear fission in the Chicago Pile-1 reactor, under the direction of Enrico Fermi and his team of 49 scientists. More information on this landmark experiment can be found on Wikipedia here. The Wikipedia article also shows …
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