Thus there was great dismay in October 1966, when Michigan’s $85 million Enrico Fermi atomic power plant, the first commercial power-producing fast-breeder reactor in the U.S., had to be shut ...

Nicknamed “Chicago Pile-1,” the world’s first nuclear reactor kicked off the Atomic Age and has ... chemists and engineers of the time—including Enrico Fermi, Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner. Hundreds ...

Gathered there was a team of scientists and engineers headed by Enrico Fermi, a refugee from Mussolini’s Italy. They had finished building history’s first nuclear reactor. Now they were using ...

All U.S. nuclear reactors, which currently provide more than half of the nation's carbon-free power, are first- or ...