"gadfly physicist" I wish that I was a physicist just so that I could put that on my business card.
75 years ago, the Pile — the world's first reactor — went critical. My take on its legacy:https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/remembering-chicago-pile-worlds-first-nuclear-reactor …
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World’s first reactor? No. First reactor built by humans, yes. The Oklo reactor sites are older.
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Interesting. I didn’t know of these natural ones till now. Not a scientist. But then, the only ones that matter are the ones humans built, right?
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Amazing description of this day in Richard Rhodes' The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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Just saw the log of the first test run at the Chicago History Museum. Note the “We’re cookin!” at the bottompic.twitter.com/rRBqUEaFIW
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Buried in the woods where?
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