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Old October 24th 03, 08:21 PM
Andrew Gray
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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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Old October 24th 03, 08:26 PM
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In article , Andrew Gray wrote:

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...


Following up - Stagg Field kept being described as "abandoned" in the
cites, so it may well not have been used at all post-Fermi.

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Old October 25th 03, 12:01 AM
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Andrew Gray wrote:

In article , Andrew Gray wrote:

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...


Following up - Stagg Field kept being described as "abandoned" in the
cites, so it may well not have been used at all post-Fermi.


It wasn't used pre-Fermi. U of C had forsworn athletics, hence the
stadium was unused, and available for building the pile.

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Old October 25th 03, 12:54 AM
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Derek Lyons wrote:

It wasn't used pre-Fermi. U of C had forsworn athletics, hence the
stadium was unused, and available for building the pile.


When building the pile, they found a stash of raccoon coats in
the stadium, which the guards wore.

Paul

 




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