atomic pile
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Inside this anchor tube ran the thick coaxial cable that fed three-phase electric power from the atomic pile to the ship.
Where I Wasn't Going | Walt RichmondTrailing the wheel ten miles off, was the atomic pile, directly attached to its anchor tube.
Where I Wasn't Going | Walt RichmondLook, you know how an atomic pile works—essentially just like an atomic bomb.
The K-Factor | Harry Harrison (AKA Henry Maxwell Dempsey)The atomic pile levers were still at their proper calibration.
Atom Drive | Charles Louis FontenayThis ship is powered by a nuclear reactor—in other words, an atomic pile.
Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet | Harold Leland Goodwin
British Dictionary definitions for atomic pile
the original name for a nuclear reactor
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Scientific definitions for atomic pile
An early type of nuclear reactor whose core consisted of layers of graphite block interspersed with uranium, designed to create a sustained fission reaction.
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