File:Control Rod Circuitry for the Chicago Pile, The World's First Nuclear Reactor.png

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English: This schematic of the Chicago Pile's rod control circuitry, including the shutdown, or "SCRAM" line, was completed shortly after the reactor at the University of Chicago went critical in 1942.
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Source E. Fermi, Experimental Production of a Divergent Chain Reaction, AECD-3269 (Oak Ridge, TN: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, January 4, 1952), https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/4414200
Author Enrico Fermi

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