Meanings of atomic pile in English

For instance: we're still using ion-rockets, driven by an atomic pile.

This ship is powered by a nuclear reactor-inother words, an atomic pile.

Neither of these extremes is wanted in an atomic pile.

Then try to go along with the analogy that a human society is like an atomic pile.

This is the cooled down atomic pile.

In other words, an atomic pile.

Fermi and a group of other scientists worked 4 years to build the atomic pile that produced the chain reaction.

In one case, north of Eugene, he found in the backyard of a metal die company a small atomic pile.

Most reactors worldwide function similarly; like Enrico Fermi's original atomic pile, all nuke plants use moveable, neutron-sopping cadmium rods to dampen or intensify the action.

For all I knew, I might be as irrevocably doomed as if I had stepped into the deadly, silent aura of an unshielded atomic pile.

Their atomic piles needed new neutron sources only once in a few years.

Wormold's biggest seller was a vacuum called the " Atomic Pile."

The only real problem you'll have in finding them is the confusion created by illegal atomic piles.

"I suppose you know that this ship runs on an atomic pile," he said in a conversational tone of voice.