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Nuclear Energy Sculpture / Chicago Pile-1 Site

Chicago, IL

Henry Moore's looming sculpture marks the site where scientists achieved the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in 1942.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: nps.gov/places/site-of-the-first-self-sustaining-controlled-nuclear-chain-reaction.htm

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