The success of Chicago Pile-1 provided the first vivid demonstration of the feasibility of the military use of nuclear energy by the Allies, and the reality of the danger that Nazi Germany could succeed in producing nuclear weapons.
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Chicago Pile-1 filed a patent for his idea of a simple nuclear reactor the following year.
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Chicago Pile-1 discussed the prospects for uranium enrichment with Harold Urey.
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Chicago Pile-1 proposed a schedule to achieve a controlled nuclear chain reaction by January 1943, and to have an atomic bomb by January 1945.
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Chicago Pile-1 scouted around the campus and we went with him to dark corridors and under various heating pipes and so on, to visit possible sites for this experiment and eventually a big room was discovered in Schermerhorn Hall.
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Chicago Pile-1 had a central location, and scientists, technicians and facilities were more readily available in the Midwest, where war work had not yet taken them away.
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Stagg Field had been largely unused since the University of Chicago Pile-1 had given up playing American football in 1939, but the rackets courts under West Stands were still used for playing squash and handball.
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Chicago Pile-1's helped Anderson locate the required large number of 4-by-6-inch timbers at lumber yards in Chicago's south side.
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Chicago Pile-1 was encased within a balloon so that the air inside could be replaced by carbon dioxide.
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Chicago Pile-1 wanted to test the control circuits, but after 28 minutes, the alarm bells went off to notify everyone that the neutron flux had passed the preset safety level, and he ordered Zinn to release the zip.
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