The phrase "atomic pile" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to an early type of nuclear reactor that uses uranium as fuel and graphite as a moderator.
Example: "The development of the atomic pile marked a significant milestone in the field of nuclear energy."
Alternatives: "nuclear reactor" or "reactor core".
Fermi and a group of other scientists worked 4 years to build the atomic pile that produced the chain reaction.
A radioactive form of cobalt, cobalt-60, prepared by exposing cobalt to the radiations of an atomic pile, is useful in industry and medical science.
During World War II, Wigner worked at the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago, where he helped Enrico Fermi construct the first atomic pile.
In 1942 they succeeded in unleashing that energy on a large scale by means of what was called an atomic pile.
Has he actually seen Nuclear Energy in its position on the site of the first atomic pile in the University of Chicago?
Wormald, a vacuum cleaner salesman and inadvertent spy, sends British intelligence into a spin with his scale drawings of the parts of "the Atomic Pile Cleaner".
The experiments discussed by Randerson were developed in the wake of the major accident in October 1957 at the so-called atomic piles at Windscale, operated to make plutonium for weapons, the result of which ended in the uncontrolled distribution of large quantities of radioactive fallout across the north-west of England, Ireland and further afield.
Reporting on "a young Swiss student," just "18 years old," who had "designed a tiny self-powered electronic tube" that "would use built-in radioactive material from the atomic trash pile," the record noted that the achievement had won the student various prestigious accolades and concluded that it would eventually "assur[e] him a top college scholarship".
Understand how atomic mass is represented.
Pinpoint atomic mass on the periodic table.
