First Nuclear Reactor Shutdown

First Nuclear Reactor Shutdown

In 1942, a man standing nearby holding an axe tied a control rod to a rope, creating the first Scram button on a nuclear reactor. Cutting the rope would cause the rod to fall into the reactor core by gravity, thereby shutting down the reactor.

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