X-10 Graphite Reactor

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The X-10 Graphite Reactor is a decommissioned nuclear reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Formerly known as the Clinton Pile and X-10 Pile, it was the world's second artificial nuclear reactor (after Enrico Fermi's Chicago Pile-1) and the first intended for continuous operation.

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Image: Ed Westcott / US Army / Manhattan Engineer District, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.