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Chicago in a Squash Court, Enrico Fermi operated CP-1 reactor in 1942. It was a nearly spherical assembly of "greasy" black graphite blocks with uranium balls distributed in holes bored into the graphite. It had no shielding or cooling system, but was never operated for more than a few minutes at a time and never at a power level over 1W.

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