Where was the first nuclear reactor in the U.S.?

The first nuclear reactor in the U.S. in a squash court at the University of Chicago.

There, using a uranium-235-based reactor, Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi achieved the first sustained nuclear chain reaction on December 2, 1942.

It was a crucial step in the development of nuclear weapons and nuclear power.

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