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Old October 24th 03, 08:21 PM
Andrew Gray
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Default "Little red schoolhouse" history question (crosspost from s.s.h.)

In article , Ian Stirling wrote:

Umm... No. A research reactor in a pool bears almost no resemblence
to a power reactor.


IIRC, the first reactor was built on a tennis (badminton?) court.
Was the court restored to its former usage afterwards, and does it
still exist?


Univeristy of Chicago squash court, if memory serves.

[googles]

Fermi built the first self-sustaining controlled nuclear pile there, in
late 1942.

The squash court was in the West Stands at Stagg Field, Chicago; the
building was torn down in 1960, and a bronze scuplture built on the site
in 1967. Can't find out if anyone played squash there in the interveing
eighteen years, though...

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