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An air-cooled reactor, the X-10 Graphite Reactor, was built at the Clinton Engineer Works in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, as part of a plutonium semiworks, [116] followed by larger water-cooled production reactors at the Hanford Site in Washington state. [117] Enough plutonium was produced for an atomic bomb by July 1945, and for two more in August. [118]
Site A was a research facility near Chicago where, during World War II, research on behalf of the Manhattan Project was carried out. Operated by the University of Chicago's Metallurgical Laboratory, it was the site of Chicago Pile-2, a reconstructed and enlarged version of the world's first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1.
The Met Lab built Chicago Pile-1, the world's first nuclear reactor, under the stands of the University of Chicago sports stadium. In 1943, CP-1 was reconstructed as CP-2, in the Argonne Forest, a forest preserve location outside Chicago. The laboratory facilities built here became known as Site A.
It is located near where the Cal-Sag Channel meets the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. In the woods is the original site of Argonne National Laboratory and the Site A/Plot M Disposal Site, which contains the buried remains of Chicago Pile-1, the world's first artificial nuclear reactor.
Chicago Pile-3 (CP-3) was the world's first heavy water reactor. One of the first research reactors , it was constructed in 1943 at Site A , a research facility around ten miles from the University of Chicago campus in the city of Chicago .
The control panel for the Hanford nuclear site's B Reactor in 2008. AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File The B Reactor was the world's first full-scale plutonium production reactor .
Hanford was used from World War II through the Cold War to produce nearly two-thirds of the plutonium for the nation’s nuclear weapons program. Now the site employs about 11,000 people for ...
The site was named a Chicago Landmark on October 27, 1971. [3] A Henry Moore sculpture, Nuclear Energy, in a small quadrangle commemorates the location of the nuclear experiment. [1] The University's current Stagg Field a football, soccer, and track field is located a few blocks away and reuses one of the original gates.