In 1942, the Manhattan Project needed to create a chain ... reaction, the first created by humans, on Dec. 2, 1942, in a squash court under the stands of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago.
December — Dr. Enrico Fermi achieves the first controlled nuclear chain reaction ... boiling-water reactor called the Borax III. November — An experimental breeder reactor about 50 miles ...
Jimmy Carter formed the Department of Energy, opposed a major Oak Ridge nuclear project and responded to Three Mile Island.
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US approves new facility design concept to turn nuclear waste into reactor fuelIt will help turn used material recovered from DOE’s former Experimental Breeder Reactor-II (EBR-II reactor ... that produces ...
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As a refresher, the water used in current commercial fission reactors acts as a moderator on the neutrons that are produced during a nuclear fission chain reaction, effectively slowing them down.
Fast neutron reactors can increase efficiency of nuclear energy and shrink the environmental footprint ... to sustain the fission chain reaction. While only a fraction of natural uranium is used as ...
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