Gathers the historical-figure entities profiled for their role in developing nuclear power, including the physicists whose research made nuclear fission usable as an energy source and the engineers who designed early nuclear reactors and power plants. Each entry covers a specific individual rather than a reactor design or a power plant, which are filed under their own respective types elsewhere in the atlas, one level up from this pioneer grouping.
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1. Nuclear reactor - Wikipedia
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In 1942, the first artificial critical nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1, was built by the Metallurgical Laboratory.
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