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16WY7 TIL The world's first nuclear reactor. Chicago Pile 1 was built in 1942 by Nobel Prize winner Enrico Fermi. The reactor was built underneath the University of Chicago's Stagg Field football stadium
R7Vo6 TIL that a few weeks before the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, US scientists performed a safety test on the EBR-II reactor by disabling cooling pumps and automatic protection systems at full thermal power. The core passively cooled itself as designed without human intervention or damage.
EyGW TIL: The Integral Fast Reactor can’t meltdown, is 100 times more efficient and recycles its own waste. The government killed it in 1994