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Chicago Pile-1
world's first nuclear reactor to achieve criticality, part of the Manhattan Project, the Allied effort to create atomic bombs during World War II
Argonne National Laboratory
science and engineering research national laboratory in Lemont, IL, United States
Advanced Photon Source
Generates high-brilliance X-ray beams from synchrotron radiation
Chicago Pile 3
first heavy water reactor in the world, going critical on 15 May 1944
Chicago Pile 5
thermal-neutron research reactor using enriched uranium
Red Gate Woods
Open space in Cook County, Illinois, US
Site A / Plot M Disposal Site
Nuclear disposal site in Cook County, Illinois, US
Argonaut class reactor
Design of small nuclear research reactor built throughout the world, over a wide range of power levels.