An atomic pile, also called a nuclear reactor, is a device in which physicists can create a sustained nuclear reaction. The concept of a nuclear chain reaction was first realized by Hungarian scientist Leo Szilard in 1933. He filed a patent for his idea of a simple nuclear reactor the following year.
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