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ANS Friday Nuclear Matinee - CP-1 Anniversary

December 4, 2015, 4:12PMANS Nuclear CafeWill Davis

ANS Friday Nuclear Matinee

This week's Friday Nuclear Matinee is a video from Argonne National Laboratory marking the anniversary of the December 2, 1942, startup of the world's first "atomic chain reacting pile," or the first nuclear reactor constructed and operated anywhere by man.

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