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(CP-1)
Located at the
University of Chicago
, underneath an abandoned
football stadium
(
Stagg Field
), Chicago Pile Number One or CP-1 went critical on December 2, 1942.
Constructed in an abandoned
squash
court it was here that
mankind
first harnessed the
power
of the
atom
. Although it only produced 0.5
watt
s of power it was all that was needed to enter the
next phase
of the
United States
' development of
The Bomb
.
The pile contained 771,000
pound
s of
graphite
, 80,590 pounds of
uranium oxide
and 12,400 pounds of
uranium
metal
when it went "
critical
." It cost about $1
million
to produce and build. The
pile
took the form of a flattened
ellipsoid
which measured 25
feet
wide and 20 feet high.
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