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 ...

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.

HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Hill Air Force Base could receive a portable nuclear reactor to provide ... set to repurpose the Experimental-Breeder Reactor-II containment structure to conduct tests ...

Jimmy Carter formed the Department of Energy, opposed a major Oak Ridge nuclear project and responded to Three Mile Island.

When was the first nuclear reactor created ... If you balance it right, the atoms breaking apart will cause a chain reaction that sustains itself. That is, neutrons hit atoms, releasing more ...

It will help turn used material recovered from DOE’s former Experimental Breeder Reactor-II (EBR-II reactor ... that produces ...

This isn't the first time a big nuclear project has been planned for the Clinch River Site, a 1,200-acre tract at the far ...

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.

This means they use water as both a coolant and neutron moderator to control the nuclear reaction and produce ... the full-scale Experimental Breeder Reactor-II (EBR-II) and tested and validated ...

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 ...

The Tennessee Valley Authority is leading a team of nuclear companies and utilities ... It was once home to the Clinch River Breeder Reactor and Babcock & Wilcox and Bechtel's mPower small modular ...