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The first human-made
nuclear chain reaction
.
Video 7.
Getting funding for the
Chicago Pile
Edward Teller
interview by
Web of Stories
(1996)
Source
.
youtu.be/mnScq24BEmc?t=114
the main cost for the reactor was the
graphite
. Presumably they already had the
uranium
in hand?. Edit, no, it is because it was a specialized graphite:
Video 8. "German graphite from The Genius Behind the Bomb (1992)"
, i.e.
nuclear graphite
.
Video 8.
German
graphite
from The Genius Behind the Bomb (1992)
Source
. Graphite was expensive because it had to be
boron
-free, since
boron
absorbs
neutrons
. But a
boron
process was the main way to make
graphite
. This type of pure graphite is known as
nuclear graphite
.
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