Reactor designs that sustain and control a nuclear fission chain reaction to produce heat, including the pressurized water reactor, the boiling water reactor, the CANDU reactor and the small modular reactor. Belongs here: any distinct fission reactor design or class. Does not belong here: the fusion device Tokamak, grouped under Fusion Device, which pursues a different nuclear reaction entirely.
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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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