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The timeline is all wrong: > In 1945, theory was turned into practice. (I can’t even WRITE that without my skin crawling, but nevertheless, it can’t be un-done
by carlob 10y ago
The timeline is all wrong:
> In 1945, theory was turned into practice. (I can’t even WRITE that without my skin crawling, but nevertheless, it can’t be un-done now).
Immediately, the scientists saw that if they just slowed down the reaction a bit, they could get controlled power.
Power almost without limit.
Power without pollution.
The first controlled chain reaction was achieved by Fermi in 1942, 3 years before Hiroshima.
- 27182818284 10y agoYeah this article is garbage and has a middle-school understanding of the history of things at best.