Posted on 01/05/2015 9:43:34 AM PST by Eurotwit
Hitler’s atomic bomb program run by Werner Heisenberg missed the fact that heavy water wasn’t needed for a nuclear pile and common graphite would work just as well. Enrico Fermi did make the graphite connection and the first atomic reactor built in a squash court at the University of Chicago was simply uranium encased in graphite blocks.
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