X-10 reactor face - Courtesy of the Department of Energy
November 1943
The X-10 reactor at Oak Ridge goes critical.

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X-10 Pile
The graphite block measured 24 ft. on a side and contained 1248 channels on eight inch centers.

Courtesy of Penn State University Press

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Loading uranium slugs into the X-10 reactor - Courtesy of Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Exterior view of X-10 reactor (black building) - Courtesy of the Department of Energy

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