Enrico Fermi of a self-sustaining nuclear reaction were unknown, so it seemed inadvisable to build the first nuclear reactor on the University of Chicago campus in the middle of the city. Compton found a location in the Argonne Woods Forest Preserve, about from Chicago. Stone & Webster was contracted to develop the site, but the work was halted by an industrial dispute. Fermi then persuaded Compton that he could build the reactor in the squash court under the stands of the University of Chicago's Stagg Field. Construction of the pile began on 6 November 1942, and Chicago Pile-1 went critical on 2
McMaster Nuclear Reactor confirm that there has never been a report of any nuclear material that has been lost or stolen from McMaster's reactor". McMaster Nuclear Reactor The McMaster Nuclear Reactor (MNR) is a 5MW pool-type reactor located on the campus of McMaster University, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. MNR began operating in April 1959, as the first university based research reactor in the Commonwealth of Nations, and remains the highest-flux reactor in a university environment in Canada to this day. The reactor consists of two connected pools; the core can be located and operated in either one. This allows the core to be