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Did A WWII Nuclear Experiment Make The U Of C Radioactive?
We used a Geiger counter to see if we could detect any radiation footprint from the site of the first sustained nuclear chain reaction.
By Katie Mingle
 
An artist's rendering of Chicago Pile 1.
Did a WWII nuclear experiment make the U of C radioactive?
Our Geiger counter couldn’t detect any radiation footprint from the site of the first sustained nuclear chain reaction. (Whew!) But, was safety first and foremost when scientists ran their WWII nuclear experiment in Chicago?
By Katie Mingle