Chicago Pile-1 experiment

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Chicago_Pile-1_experiment

GPTKB entity

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	scientific research nuclear experiment
gptkbp:commemorates	National Historic Landmark plaque sculpture "Nuclear Energy" by Henry Moore
gptkbp:control_rods	cadmium
gptkbp:date	December 2, 1942
gptkbp:fuelType	natural uranium
gptkbp:historicalSignificance	beginning of the atomic age
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Chicago Pile-1 experiment
gptkbp:influenced	development of nuclear reactors development of nuclear weapons
gptkbp:ledTo	gptkb:Enrico_Fermi
gptkbp:location	gptkb:Stagg_Field
gptkbp:material	gptkb:uranium graphite
gptkbp:modulatedBy	graphite blocks
gptkbp:notableAchievement	first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction
gptkbp:oversees	gptkb:Arthur_Compton
gptkbp:part_of	gptkb:Manhattan_Project
gptkbp:powerOutput	about 0.5 watts (initially) up to 200 watts (later)
gptkbp:purpose	to demonstrate feasibility of nuclear chain reaction
gptkbp:reactor_name	gptkb:Chicago_Pile-1
gptkbp:reactor_shape	spherical
gptkbp:reactorType	gptkb:nuclear_reactor
gptkbp:removed_to	gptkb:Argonne_National_Laboratory_(as_CP-2)
gptkbp:resultedIn	demonstration of controlled nuclear fission
gptkbp:team	gptkb:Eugene_Wigner gptkb:Leo_Szilard gptkb:Walter_Zinn gptkb:George_Weil gptkb:Herbert_L._Anderson
gptkbp:tookPlaceIn	gptkb:University_of_Chicago
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Racquet_Court,_Stagg_Field
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6