Herb Anderson’s piece of the Chicago Pile

**TIME INDEX BELOW** This video shows a “live block“ from the first nuclear reactor, the “Chicago Pile“ or CP-1, built in secrecy beneath the stands of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago in 1942. The block was owned as a commemorative item by physicist Herbert L. Anderson. It consists of a piece of graphite with holes milled for two pieces of uranium metal nuclear fuel. In narrating this video I mostly blather unscripted for almost half an hour (sorry!), but I do touch on the following points: