First self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction
Numéro d’image : 11891170
| Painting depicting the moment at which the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction occurred,at 3.36 pm on December 2,1942. The pile was built by a team led by the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi in a squash court under the stands of Chicago University's Stagg Field,and consisted of a complex lattice of bricks of graphite & "slugs" of uranium. At bottom centre is George Weil,operating one of the control rods. At top right is the 'liquid control squad',armed with buckets of a solution of a cadmium salt (in case of mechanical failure of the control rods) | |
| Licence : | Droits gérés |
| Crédit: | Science Photo Library / Argonne National Laboratory |
| Taille de l’image : | 4340 px × 2480 px |
| Model Release : | Non requis |
| Property Release : | Non requis |
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